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The Story of Sarah — Treating Autism with Stem Cells When talking about dental pulp stem cells, we often talk about the potential of stem cells in future medical therapies. As such, sometimes it can be easy to forget that stem …

Researchers take step toward using stem cells to repair spinal cord injuries Researchers at the University of California San Diego’s School of Medicine (UCSD) have taken a step toward using stem cells to repair spinal cord injuries, having successfully grafted human neural …

Judging the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair On Friday, May 4th, NDPL Cell Biologist Matthew Wilgo attended the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair as a judge! Held at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, the annual event showcases science projects from some …

A special thanks to all who participated in the NDPL Twitter SciParty January 19th! NDPL Cell Biologist Matthew Wilgo had a great time hosting the NDPL SciParty. Much ground was covered, including a discussion of the different types of stem …

We’re excited to get down and SciParty! Join us over on Twitter this Friday, January 19th from 1-2pm EST, for the NDPL SciParty! What is an NDPL SciParty, anyway? From the SciParty folks: SciParty is a weekly scientific twitter chat …

Thanks to Stem cell & heart biologist Arun Sharma, we’ve learned that it’s OCT4: #PluripotencyDay! One of the amazing characteristics of dental pulp stem cells is their pluripotency; their ability do differentiate into other types of human cells. Here, shared from Arun’s Twitter …