by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Jan 4, 2018 | Disease Models
Anyone who follows popular science news will have noticed that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have gained traction in recent years. Alleviating chronic back pain, enabling stroke sufferers to walk again, manmade tracheas and a cure for Crohn’s disease – these are just...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Dec 17, 2017 | Disease Models
Have you heard of the retinal pigment epithelium? Well, the retinal pigment epithelium (or RPE) is located at the interface between the light-sensitive outer parts of the visual cells (photoreceptors) in the retina and the blood supply of the choroid in the eye...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Nov 27, 2017 | Industry News, Trends
In our last post, we walked through some of the canonical hypotheses surrounding Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but what about all the other hypotheses that are knocking around? Since AD’s discovery over a century ago countless ideas have emerged, yet the exact cause of...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Nov 7, 2017 | Trends
The Discovery of Alzheimer’s Disease The Alzheimer’s story began when the German physician Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer reported distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brains of deceased individuals in a series of case study reports, published in the early...
