2017

The inner lining of the gut consists of a single cell layer of intestinal epithelium that form millions of crypts and villi. Stem cells – shown in green – reside at the bottom of the crypts and replicate daily, generating new cells to maintain the tissue...

Stem cells loaded with oncolytic viruses target skin cancer metastases in the brain Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have a potential solution for how to kill tumor cells that have metastasized to...

Adapted from an ISSCR press release For the second year in a row, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recognized two HSCI Principal Faculty members at the ISSCR Annual Meeting for their outstanding contributions to the stem cell...

We are proud to announce that Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD, has been selected by the Pew Charitable Trust to receive an early-career award that will fund her research for the next four years. Hsu joined the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology...

Adapted from a Boston Children's Hospital Vector blog post by Nancy Flieser Adapted from a Boston Children's Hospital Vector blog post by Nancy Flieser For a tissue graft to survive in the body — whether it’s a surgical graft or bioengineered tissue — it...

Adapted from a Boston Children's Hospital press release. Two golden retrievers that had the genetic mutation for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), yet remained healthy, have offered up yet another lead for treating this muscle-wasting disorder. For...

New technique raises possibility of making all types of blood cells to treat disease By Nancy Fliesler, Boston Children's Hospital Communications Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have, for the first time, generated...