“The approach, at first glance, seems simplistic and naive,” cancer researcher Robert Weinberg of MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research writes in an email to The Scientist. “Why should an ...

FLIpping the Switch: Boosting Stem Cell Numbers for Therapies Mar ... mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into oral cancer at the earliest stages of the ... Feb. 4, 2025 — Research ...

In addition, he studies the spindle assembly checkpoint which ensures proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer. Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem ...

Allogeneic transplants also can treat multiple myeloma. When you have an allogeneic stem cell transplant, stem cells are harvested (collected) from a donor. For either type of transplant, you first ...

If cells are removed from the embryo they will differentiate into any cell ... stem cells cultured for a number of generations, and some mutated stem cells have been observed to behave like cancer ...

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Society, and the rate of new cases continues to rise. Now, researchers at University of ...

These stem cell clones in older individuals can develop into cancer and drive other diseases. One theory is that they may even underlie features of human aging and explain why our tissues become ...

facility at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where they are expanded on a scaffold, a process that takes about two to three weeks.” “The resulting stem cell graft is then brought back to Mass Eye ...

Washington — A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer’s youngest survivors.