Stem Cell Channel (Audio)

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Stem cell science is changing medicine and our understanding of human development. The Stem Cell Channel takes you into the labs where cutting edge-research takes place, introduces you to the scientists leading the way, and breaks down how these amazing discoveries impact everyday life and health.

  1. 3일 전

    Design Principles of Development and Renewal Across the Oral-Gut Axis

    Organs renew and repair themselves through stem cell systems that respond to injury, microbes, and local signals. Ophir Klein, M.D., Ph.D., of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center explains how the intestine shifts into regenerative states after injury, how long-term changes in the stem cell niche may shape later responses, and how different regions of the colon take on distinct identities. Klein also examines how bacteria help control regional gene expression in the colon, why the lining of the mouth heals faster than skin, and how oral wound healing depends on signaling between epithelial and mesenchymal cells. The program also looks at bioengineering approaches designed to control developmental signals more precisely. Together, these examples show how tissues adapt, heal, and organize themselves, pointing toward better ways to understand regeneration and improve tissue repair. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 40849]

    55분

  2. 4월 2일

    Mapping Cognitive Resilience: How Environment Aging and Inflammation Shape Information Encoding in the Hippocampus

    Cognitive resilience depends on how the brain responds to environment, aging, and inflammation. J. Tiago Gonçalves, Ph.D., studies the hippocampus to examine how spatial memory is shaped by factors such as cognitive enrichment, exercise, social interaction, disease, and age. Gonçalves explains how adult neurogenesis and microglia help support the brain’s ability to encode information, and how disruptions in these systems can affect memory. He also shows that aging and systemic inflammation can weaken spatial encoding while still revealing signs of adaptation and recovery over time. By connecting brain plasticity, immune activity, and memory formation, Gonçalves presents a broader view of how cognition changes across the lifespan and how these mechanisms may inform future strategies for addressing cognitive decline Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 40848]

    59분

  3. 3월 30일

    Where Innovation Meets Patients: The Work of California’s Alpha Clinics

    Alpha Clinics in California accelerate the development of regenerative medicine therapies that use cells and genes to treat serious diseases. Patient advocate Tara Radcliffe Ghiglieri shares lived experience with gene therapy, while Sheldon Morris, M.D., M.P.H., Mehrdad Abedi, M.D., Daniela A. Bota, M.D., Ph.D., Catriona Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., Michael Lewis, M.D., Mark Walters, M.D., and Leo D. Wang, M.D., Ph.D., describe how Alpha Clinic teams design and deliver clinical trials for a wide range of conditions, including cancer, blood disorders, neurologic disease, osteoarthritis, metabolic disorders, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. They highlight how coordinated networks, community partnerships, and genomic tools help expand access, lower financial barriers, and bring promising cell and gene therapies to more patients while carefully tracking safety, effectiveness, and long-term outcomes. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 41168]

    1시간 14분

  4. 3월 24일

    Reimagining T Cell Therapy: An Unconventional Path to Universal CAR-T Cells

    Off-the-shelf immune cell therapies using engineered T cells represent an important direction in cancer treatment. Lili Yang, Ph.D., at UCLA develops an off-the-shelf platform based on invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells generated from hematopoietic stem cells, often sourced from cord blood. Yang programs these stem cells with iNKT cell receptors, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), and genes such as IL-15 to create pure, expandable iNKT products that recognize lipid antigens presented by non polymorphic CD1d molecules. These cells combine multiple killing mechanisms, infiltrate tissues, target tumor cells and immunosuppressive myeloid cells, and show reduced risk of graft versus host disease and cytokine release syndrome in preclinical models. Yang’s group tests this strategy in models of blood cancers and solid tumors, aiming to generate many therapeutic doses from a single donor. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40846]

    1시간

  5. 3월 10일

    Development of a Multivalent Gene Therapy to Correct Cryptic Splicing in ALS

    RNA binding proteins help cells control how genetic information becomes working proteins, and Gene Yeo, Ph.D., M.B.A., at UC San Diego investigates how their disruption contributes to neurodegenerative disease. Yeo focuses on ALS, a severe motor neuron disease in which the RNA binding protein TDP-43 moves from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, loses normal RNA processing functions, and triggers cryptic exons that damage key neuronal genes, including one linked to motor neuropathy. His group maps these RNA changes and develops small nuclear RNA guides packaged in AAV vectors to block harmful splice sites and restore healthy RNA and protein levels. In cell cultures and a humanized mouse model, this strategy improves axon growth and supports the idea that multiplexed RNA-targeted therapies could correct multiple disease pathways at once. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 41166]

    20분

  6. 3월 6일

    Aging Blood Stem Cells and the Roots of Cancer

    Aging is the leading risk factor for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease, and Robert A.J. Signer, Ph.D., studies how aging stem cells shape pre-cancer and healthspan. As deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Discovery Center, Signer focuses on rare blood-forming stem cells that self-renew, generate all blood and immune cells, and normally sustain more than 35 trillion blood cells, including about 2 million new red blood cells every second. His group finds that these “Zen” stem cells slow protein production to limit damaging “trash,” but aging stresses overwhelm these defenses. Stress response programs such as HSF1 then help both healthy and mutant stem cells, fueling clonal hematopoiesis, a common, untreated pre-cancerous condition linked to cardiovascular disease, inflammation, cancer, and increased mortality. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 41253]

    10분

  7. 1월 19일

    Stem Cell Pathways Targeting Neurodegenerative Diseases - Medicine Informing Novel Discoveries (MIND)

    Stem cell science is reshaping treatment for complex disorders of the brain and spinal cord. Researchers develop cell based therapies to replace lost dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson’s disease, fill gaps across spinal cord injuries, and calm seizure networks in refractory epilepsy by restoring the balance of inhibition and excitation. Teams test immune cell therapies against Epstein Barr virus infected B cells in multiple sclerosis and collaborate to move treatments across the blood brain barrier to reach diseased cells. Clinicians combine imaging in the operating room, surgical tools, and research on biological age and the pace of aging to understand disease and guide treatment. Patient advocates describe challenges and hopes for better options, and contemporary art reflects on perception in digital and physical worlds. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 40992]

    1시간 25분

  8. 2025. 12. 03.

    Dissecting the Biological Complexity of Animal Regeneration

    Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., argues that real progress in understanding regeneration comes from studying whole organisms rather than cells grown under artificial conditions. Sánchez Alvarado shows how observations from intact animals reveal organizing rules that narrow laboratory systems can miss. He presents evidence that stem cells in a studied animal lack detectable junctions with neighboring cells and instead respond to signals that travel across tissues. Sánchez Alvarado links this communication to extracellular vesicles that carry RNA and to metabolic support involving creatine, highlighting how distant tissues influence repair. Using imaging and molecular analyses, he tracks how signals move through the body and how specific cell populations change state during recovery. Sánchez Alvarado concludes that broad, comparative research is essential for uncovering general principles that govern how adult tissues restore form and function. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 40454]

    57분
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