Which role models are best for STEM? Researchers offer recommendations in new analysis
An analysis of the effect role models have on students’ motivation in studying STEM subjects points to new ways to ...
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State Stem Cell Agency awards $4M for blood cancer immunotherapy at UC San Diego
n November 23, 2021, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) governing board approved a $4.1 million grant to enable ...
Research that improves speed, accuracy of stem cell experiments
Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are working to create a simulation technique that better predicts how stem ...
Stereotypes in STEM fields start by age six
The perception that boys are more interested than girls in computer science and engineering starts as young as age six, ...
Lin Ma named 2021 STEM CELLS Young Investigator
Durham, NC – Lin Ma, Ph.D., is the recipient of STEM CELLS’s Young Investigator Award for 2021. Her work on ...
New technique may lead to safer stem cell transplants
For hard-to-treat leukemias, lymphomas and other blood cancers, stem cell transplantation is the gold standard of care. The procedure involves ...
New guide helps combat damping-off and root and stem rot of cucurbits
The plant parasite species Pythium lurks in virtually every agricultural field and commonly causes damping-off, which weakens or kills seeds ...
Cystic fibrosis patients may see personalized treatments emerge from “drug screening in a dish,” stem cell research finds
Stem cell researchers may soon have a new way to identify and develop novel, personalized therapies for patients with Cystic ...
Skin stem cells get moving for enhanced skin regeneration
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have found that the movement of skin stem cells can help your ...
Stem cell transplant: How skin-derived T cells can damage other organs
More than 40,000 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants are carried out worldwide every year, mostly for patients suffering from leukemia ...
Study examines diversifying STEM research for underrepresented students
The social, economic, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected underserved populations in the United States, including ...
Illinois Tech professor joins national program for STEM faculty from underrepresented backgrounds
Georgia Papavasiliou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), has been ...
Researchers report on new way to deliver healing stem cells to kidney injury patients
Durham, NC – Scientists are reporting promising results in the early stages of a clinical trial designed to gauge the ...
Researchers build embryo-like structures from human stem cells
Research on human embryos is vital to understanding the earliest stages of human development. Currently, this research is conducted on ...
Repeated injury to airway stem cells could be major factor in chronic lung disease
Durham, NC – Are prematurely aged or overworked stem cells a significant factor in chronic lung disease? Findings of a ...
Students’ certainty about belonging and their performance in a STEM course reinforce each other – for better or worse
As a first-year college student in an introductory chemistry class sits down for their midterm, which might be their first ...
Researchers explore promising new stem cell treatment for MRSA superbug
Durham, NC – A study released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM), by researchers at the Baker Institute for Animal ...
Stem cells model genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease
AD, the most frequent cause of dementia, affects an estimated 24 million people worldwide. With very limited treatment options, scientists ...
Building the ovarian environment from stem cells
Japan—Researchers led by Kyushu University have succeeded in using mouse stem cells to reconstruct structures in the ovarian environment critical ...
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Can seven questions determine how wise you are?
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A dinosaur trove in Italy rewrites the history, geography, and evolution of the ancient Mediterranean area
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City of Hope scientists discover pathway that allows cancer to bypass oncology treatments
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Spanish scientists determine the mode of action of essential proteins involved in cancer and Alzheimer´s disease