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Stem cells to fight brain diseases say Cambridge scientists Written by ELEANOR DICKINSON Sufferers of serious brain diseases could one day be helped by stem cell treatments, according to scientists at Cambridge University. Scientists at the University hope to be able to use the regenerative power of stem cells to treat...

A consortium of 10 European partners have been awarded €6million by the European Commission for a research and development project focused on directing stem cells to become bone and muscle. Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to generate any type of cell found in the body. They are generated and multiplied in the...

Professor Tony Green is leading the five-year programme to help increase understanding of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). MPNs are a group of blood disorders related to leukaemia that cause the normal regulation of blood cell production to break down, which creates too many blood cells and means the blood can become...

SCI core bioinformaticians Patrick Lombard and Lila Diamanti have contributed to the creation of HAEMCODE, a large scale repository for transcription factor binding maps in mouse blood cells. Transcription factors are proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow of genetic information from DNA...