Innovate & Challenge Fate

The Ontario Stem Cell Initiative (OSCI) is a virtual network of over 100 stem cell and regenerative medicine research programs in Ontario, representing scientists from McMaster University, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. OSCI provides a direct portal to stem cell activities all over Ontario, informing and engaging the public, research partners, industry and the international research community. OSCI's origins began in 2008 with the Toronto Stem Cell Initiative and officially launched as a Provincial initiative on June 14, 2011. OSCI's slogan, Innovate & Challenge Fate, encompasses the work of its scientists who are challenging cell and disease fate through their innovative work.

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Duncan Stewart

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Stem Cell News

May/21/13
Mapping a route to stem cell therapies.

Mapping a route to stem cell therapies.[PhysOrg] Monash University researchers are shedding light on the complex processes that underpin the creation and differentiation of stem cells, bringing closer the promise of miracle therapies. Read more...

Monash University researchers are shedding light on the complex processes that underpin the creation and differentiation of stem cells, bringing closer the promise of 'miracle' therapies.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-route-stem-cell-therapies.html#jCp
Dr Jose Polo of the Australian Institute (ARMI) and the Department of Anatomy and and his team, with collaborators at Harvard, have comprehensively mapped, for the first time, the process by which are re-programmed to become an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-route-stem-cell-therapies.html#jCp
Dr Jose Polo of the Australian Institute (ARMI) and the Department of Anatomy and and his team, with collaborators at Harvard, have comprehensively mapped, for the first time, the process by which are re-programmed to become an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-route-stem-cell-therapies.html#jCp
May/16/13
Stem cells pulled from cloned human embryos.

Stem cells pulled from cloned human embryos.[ABCNews) Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. Read more...

May/13/13
Researchers chart epigenomics of stem cells that mimic early human development.

Researchers chart epigenomics of stem cells that mimic early human development.[Salk] Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as "epigenetics" play a critical role in human development, but they did not know precisely how alterations in this extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA contribute to development. Read more...

May/13/13
Stem cell research for new MS treatment.

Stem cell research for new MS treatment.[HealthCanal] "With previous work, we've already shown that adult stem cells have great potential to both control the immune response and promote repair of the central nervous system. It also prevents further damage," says Professor Shaun McColl, Director of the Centre for Molecular Pathology. Read more...
May/21/13 Mapping a route to stem cell therapies.
May/16/13 Stem cells pulled from cloned human embryos.
May/13/13 Researchers chart epigenomics of stem cells that mimic early human development.
May/13/13 Stem cell research for new MS treatment.
May/13/13 OSCI Ext Seminar: David Traver, UC San Diego, May 16th @ 4:00 pm
May/13/13 2013 Till & McCulloch Meetings Travel Awards
May/10/13 New natural bone can be regrown with reprogrammed cells.
May/10/13 Researchers find protein that rejuvenates aging mouse hearts.
May/07/13 Stem cell model of neurodegenerative disease elucidates new potential treatments.

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Upcoming Seminar

Please join us for an OSCI External Seminar on Monday, June 10th at 4:00 pm for Harvey Lodish, Professor, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, "Self-renewal of erythroid progenitor cells: molecular mechanisms and new anemia drugs". Attend in Toronto in Room #6, Lower Level, Tanz Neuroscience Building, 6 Queen's Park Circle. Unfortunately due to U of T's convocation, we will be unable to webcast this seminar.

Harvey Lodish June 10 2013

Rounds are now finished for this year. Enjoy the summer and check back in September!

OSCI is starting a new seminar series, Translation Talks, that will link stem cell biologists with clinicians doing translational work in regenerative medicine. Our next seminar is on Thursday, April 4th and will feature Gordon Keller, Director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, "Generating cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells" and Terrence Yau, Surgical Director, Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy Program, UHN, "The cardiac stem cell transplantation program at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre".  Join us on Thursday, April 4th from 9:15 to 10:15 am in the Red Room, 2nd Floor Atrium, Donnelly Centre, 160 College Street, Toronto OR join us through our webcast: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20130404-OSCI/index.htm

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