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Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs

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Time

Bin Xu, Job de Jong and Sander Markx in the Dept of Molecular Therapeutics are leading a pioneering study, using stem cells to find and test new treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Generation of a human Ocular Albinism type 1 iPSC line, SEIi001-A, with a mutation in GPR143

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Stem Cell Research

Generation of an iPSC line from the skin fibroblasts of a patient affected by a genetic eye disease, Ocular albinism type 1, presenting with a mutation in the GPR143 gene.
Beta Cell Replacement after Gene Editing of a Neonatal Diabetes-Causing Mutation at the Insulin Locus

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Stem Cell Reports

Stem cells from a subject with diabetes due to a mutation of the insulin locus can be corrected and insulin secretion restored.
Live imaging of stem cells in the germarium of the Drosophila ovary using a reusable gas-permeable imaging chamber

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Nature Protocols

This Nature Protocols paper describes a simple protocol for imaging stem cells in the Drosophila ovary that improves on alternative protocols in that flies of any age can be used.

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Subtype Diversification and Synaptic Specificity of Stem Cell-Derived Spinal Interneurons

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Science Direct

October 10, 2018

Neuronal diversification is a fundamental step in the construction of functional neural circuits
Why fetal tissue is crucial to treating disease

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Daily Mail

September 27, 2018

Daily Mail spoke to Director Emmanuelle Passegue
Optical imaging of metabolic dynamics in animals

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Nature communications

September 10, 2018

Deuterium oxide probing and stimulated Raman scattering (DO-SRS) is an innovative, nondestructive, and noninvasive imaging method to visualize metabolic dynamics of proteins, lipids, and DNA.
Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Cardiopoietic Amniotic Fluids

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Scientific Reports

September 10, 2018

Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Cardiopoietic Amniotic Fluids.
Secondary School Teachers Trade Vacation for Stem Cell Research at Columbia

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Newsroom

September 1, 2018

15 high school teachers conducted research this summer in Columbia University’s Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, which focuses on educating teachers about stem cell biology
A cluster robustness score for identifying cell subpopulations in single cell gene expression datasets from heterogeneous tissues and tumors.

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Bioinformatics

August 28, 2018

This study describes a new mathematical approach that can aid in understanding whether novel cellular subtypes identified using single-cell genomics techniques can be considered robust.