Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Cellular Therapies to Treat ‘Incurable’ Diseases – University of Arkansas Newswire

Photo Submitted Left: Jorge Almodovar, Right: Raj Rao Two U of A researchers received a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant to investigate how engineered coatings that imitate the tissue matrixsurroundingcells would affect the behavior of therapeutic human mesenchymal stromal cells, or hMSCs. Jorge Almodovar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Raj Rao, professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, were awarded the grant from the NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The grant will support research to explore how the extracellular matrix mimetic coatings affect the behavior of therapeutic hMSCs

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Lonza Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Nucleofector Cell Transfection Platform – Technology Networks

2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Lonzas groundbreaking Nucleofector Technology, the industrys leading non-viral cell transfection method, which has been cited more than 10,000 times, including in research by two Nobel Laureates. The innovative Nucleofector Technology enables the transfer of nucleic acids and proteins directly into the cells nuclei by combining optimized electrical parameters and cell type-specific solutions.

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New consortium aims to accelerate development of stem cell-based therapies for Huntingtons disease – News-Medical.Net

The Stem Cells for Huntington's Disease (SC4HD) is a new international consortium created to promote advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) through cell transplantation studies on Huntington's Disease. The entity, made up of twenty-eight renowned researchers from ten countries, has been officially presented in a recent publication in the Journal of Huntington's Disease

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Real-time imaging shines light on the coordination of neural stem cell activation – News-Medical.net

In all adult vertebrates, neural stem cells can be recruited to produce new neurons in the brain. However, little is known about these so-called "activation" processes. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, and Tel Aviv University working in collaboration with the cole Polytechnique and INRAE have successfully performed 3D visualization and spatial and temporal distribution analysis of neural stem cell activation in the adult brain of a zebrafish vertebrate model

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