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Michael J. Fox visited the Waisman Center on Tuesday, February 1 to tour the stem cell research laboratories of Clive Svendsen and Su-Chun Zhang, as well as other components of the center's translational research tower, including the Waisman Clinical BioManufacturing Facility and the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. Fox was accompanied by Wisconsin Governor James Doyle.
After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body.
$20,000 Will Go Toward Stem-cell Research Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin State Journal UW–Madison’s Waisman Center will get about $20,000 to help pay for stem-cell research from a fund-raiser organized by a UW–Madison graduate who was paralyzed in a fall. David Busta, a 1997 graduate, raised the money with his friends and family in the second annual …
On Monday, April 12, Governor James Doyle visited the Waisman Center, where he toured a number of its new research facilities. Accompanying him during his two-hour visit were Roberta Gassman, Secretary of Workforce Development; JoAnna Richard, Executive Assistant, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development; John Wiley, Ph.D., Chancellor, UW–Madison; and Lisa Maroney and Kristi Thorsen, both …
Human neural stem cells, exposed in a lab dish to the steroid DHEA, exhibit a remarkable uptick in growth rates, suggesting that the hormone may play a role in helping the brain produce new cells.
Proceeds of $105,000 from the Evening of Hope, a fund raiser held in Milwaukee earlier this year, will support the ALS research of Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., a UW–Madison professor of neurology and anatomy and an investigator in the Waisman Center’s Molecular and Genetic Sciences Unit. Svendsen’s lab is pursuing multiple scientific tracks involving stem cells …
Scientists working with cells that may someday be used to replace diseased or damaged cells in the brain have taken neural stem cell technology a key step closer to the clinic.
By pumping a potent growth factor directly into the human brain, an international team of scientists and surgeons has demonstrated significant remediation of the debilitating symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
UW-Madison scientist and brainiac Su-Chun Zhang has raised the stakes -- and astonished the world -- by proving it's possible to grow the healthy brain cells that could one day repair damage caused by everything from strokes to disease to spinal cord injuries. When UW wins the race to cure chronic diseases, he and James Thomson will be crossing the finish line together."
Today in the Wisconsin State Journal an article by the science reporter Ron Seely said that two grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research are going to Waisman stem-cell researchers.
