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Combining cell types may lead to improved cardiac cell therapy following heart attack

Posted on October 31, 2023

A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Academia Sinica of Taiwan points to an improved method for regenerating heart muscle following a heart attack.

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Discovery reveals mitochondria as potential treatment target for fragile X syndrome

Posted on October 10, 2023

The results fundamentally change how scientists understand the developmental origins of fragile X syndrome and suggest a potential treatment for brain cells damaged by the dysfunction.

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Creating stem cells from minipigs offers promise for improved treatments

Posted on September 15, 2022

A new study from Wan-Ju Li’s lab in the UW–Madison Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center advances research into reparative osteoarthritis therapies using stem cells derived from the ears of miniature pigs.

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Mouse study may help doctors choose treatments for leukemia patients

Posted on February 21, 2022

By exploring the ways mice responded, researchers hope to gain an understanding of the sorts of human health issues that may bring on a case of this life-threatening form of cancer.

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Individualized brain cell grafts reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys

Posted on March 1, 2021

UW researchers say the stem cell treatment is an “extremely powerful” step toward a treatment for millions of human Parkinson’s patients.

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Stem cells can repair Parkinson’s-damaged circuits in mouse brains

Posted on September 24, 2020

UW neuroscientists led by Su-Chun Zhang found that neurons derived from stem cells can connect with native neurons and restore motor functions. But more research is needed to translate the findings from mice to people.

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Orthopedic injury therapy in rodents may soon be headed to the clinic

Posted on April 26, 2019

The research team is now working to obtain FDA approval for a first human clinical trial to treat devastating injuries in musculoskeletal tissues.

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Five questions with Su-Chun Zhang, forger of brain cells

Posted on November 29, 2018

In light of the 20th anniversary of James Thomson’s derivation of human embryonic stem cells, we had some questions for one of the founders of stem cell neuroscience.

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Engineers drawn to stem cells’ abundance, humanity

Posted on October 18, 2018

“We very quickly became perhaps the top institution in the country in the stem cell engineering area,” says a leading UW researcher. “That was a field that didn’t exist, and we built it.”

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Stem cell advance brings bioengineered arteries closer to reality

Posted on July 10, 2017

New techniques have produced, for the first time, functional arterial cells at both the quality and scale to be relevant for disease modeling and clinical application.

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