Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have shown that Cinacalcet, a drug now used for treating disorders of the parathyroid gland, can help transplanted, …
Photos by Jon Nalick and Steve Cohn California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined USC administrators, trustees, elected public officials and over 150 invited guests in the much-anticipated dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the …
The progress of moving stem cell therapies toward clinical application and the hurdles that must be overcome along the way was the subject of a daylong discussion that took place on September …
Speaking to faculty on the Health Sciences Campus in his first major speech about the academic future of the university, USC President C. L. Max Nikias answered the question of why he …
Renowned stem cell researcher Martin Pera, PhD, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, responds to a recent court ruling blocking federal …
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have, for the first time, generated “knockout” rats—animals that are genetically modified to lack one or more genes—through …
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have successfully transplanted blood stem cells modified to be resistant to HIV into mice, allowing the animals to …
On June 14, Songtao Shi of the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology and Gregor Adams of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, co-organized the 2010 …
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have identified a key cellular mechanism that guides embryonic heart tissue formation — a process which, if disrupted, can …