stem cells

Not all of the episodes in the podcast series "How I Built This" are about biotech, but Episode 415 is, and it is fascinating! How to eat salmon, without catching fish? That is the question Wildtype cellular agriculture company founders Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck are answering. When they first met in 2011 they had not planned on starting a company, Aryé was a cardiologist busy with medicine, and Justin was a diplomat who had lived all over the world. But something clicked, and soon the two were tackling the problems... Read more

I chose to listen to The Stem Cell Podcast: Episode 198 “Printing Human Tissues because it featured Dr. Anthony Atala, the Founding Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM). WFIRM is a member of InnovATEBIO and an international leader in translating scientific discovery into clinical therapies. The team is working to engineer more than 40 different replacement tissues and organs, and were the first in the world to engineer laboratory-grown organs that were successfully implanted into humans. Dr. Atala is very passionate about his work and describes how it can take decades... Read more

2020 was challenging....2021 has just started but is obviously going to be challenging as well. What we bring to the challenges of this year are the lessons learned from last year. It can be difficult to be optimistic sometimes, but so many people have made so many amazing contributions to education that we are better able to teach, and students are better able to learn, in January 2021 than we were in March 2020.

One of those amazing contributions involves a resource that has been developed in Seattle-- the Allen Institute Open Datasets collection. The Allen Institute's... Read more

What defines a stem cell? How many types of stem cells are there? How can stem cells be used to understand and treat diseases? To answer those questions and many more, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has designed a dynamic syllabus and learning guide geared towards teaching undergraduates and medical students the fundamentals of stem cell biology. Core Concepts in Stem Cell Biology: Syllabus and Learning Guide incorporates key learning objectives and
annotated foundational papers to assist educators with this subject.

“Stem cell research and regenerative medicine is a rapidly advancing field,”... Read more

The Allen Institute for Cell Science has been busy! Two new resources are now available for everyone to explore cells. Here is what the Institute says about their new offerings.

The Allen Integrated Cell summarizes a large collection of live human stem cells, gene edited by Allen Institute scientists to incorporate fluorescent protein tags. By allowing researchers around the world to see many structures inside a living cell together at the same time, the Allen Integrated Cell provides a baseline for understanding cells, studying human disease models, and identifying pathologies.

To see something really amazing,... Read more

Stem cell research holds great promise for improved healthcare and regenerative medicine. However because the field is so new, instructors need help in learning what to teach and how to teach it.

Funding from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education program allowed teachers to learn about this new area through workshops last summer at Alamance Community College, Austin Community College (ACC), and Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC).

Bill Woodruff, retired department head of Alamance's biotechnology program, taught professors from around the country about stem cell technology, both its potential and the practical aspects needed... Read more