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Shared Leadership Delivers Impact
For my last Message from the President, I had the opportunity to connect with the Co-Chairs of the ISSCR’s Best Practices for the Development of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Therapies Jacqueline Barry and Kapil Bharti and the Co-Chairs of the Embryo Models Working Group Amander Clark and Janet Rossant to discuss these strategic initiatives. The Society often assembles members from across the world with specific expertise for short-term projects. These two groups are among them and have produced exceptional work on behalf of the field.
Member Spotlight: Jian Shu, PhD
Decoding the biological "languages" underlying genetic and cellular states remains a major challenge — we aim to build a "Google Translate" to translate and predict different languages in biology.
Exercise Enhances Stem Cell Transplant Function in Parkinson’s Disease
A research team led by Clare Parish from The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (in Melbourne) and Lachlan Thompson from the University of Sydney, Australia has now tested whether exercise enhances transplant function in PD rats. In their study, rats received a stem cell-derived transplant to replace lost dopaminergic neurons and some of the rats were given free access to a running wheel. Their work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
New Clues to Boosting Liver Regeneration After Acetaminophen Injury
Tomomi Aoyagi and colleagues from Kyushu University, Japan, studied the behavior of single cells in the mouse liver after acetaminophen injury and noticed that regeneration likely originated from a specific type of cell. The work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
New Stem Cell Model of Faulty Alpha Cells that Regulate Blood Sugar in Diabetes
Recently, Quinn Peterson and colleagues from Mayo Clinic, USA, discovered a method for making human alpha cells from cultures of immature stem cells. This work was recently published in Stem Cell Reports.
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