Search for tag: "regenerative medicine"

Rethinking Embryonic Germ Layers

Val Wilson and Elena Tzouanacou discuss their interests in mammalian cell lineages and how they came to identify one such lineage that violates a strict assumption of germ-layer segregation, as…

From  Jillian Hosie 0 likes 221 plays 0  

Institute for Regeneration and Repair

Professor Charles ffrench-Constant outlines the origins, vision and aims of the new Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the University of Edinburgh. Videography: Jessie Pearson, Robin Morton,…

From  Ellie Roger 0 likes 64 plays 0  

Charles ffrench-Constant former CRM Director

Professor Charles ffrench-Constant talks about his time at the University of Edinburgh.Videography/Interview:Jessie Pearson, Ellie Roger, Robin Morton, Christina Xenaki and Dorothy ZhangPhoto…

From  Robin Morton 1 likes 820 plays 0  

Cell therapy spinout targets liver repair treatment

Advanced liver damage could be treated and repaired instead of requiring a transplant thanks to a University of Edinburgh spinout company. Resolution Therapeutics Ltd is based on a decade of…

From  Ellie Roger 0 likes 15 plays 0  

G-Lands: an out-of-body experience

Dr Elaine Emmerson and artist Emily Fong describe their collaborative sci-art project G-Lands: An out of body experience. Elaine leads a research group searching for ways to repair salivary glands…

From  Jessie Pearson 0 likes 449 plays 0  

MSc by Research Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Repair, Student Testimonial

Miguel explains what attracted him to the MSc by Research programme at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and what it is like being a scholar on this Masters programme. Videography: Jessie…

From  Robin Morton 0 likes 363 plays 0  

Potential cell therapy for liver cirrhosis - Safety clinical trial

Liver disease patients could one day benefit from a new macrophage cell therapy that has just completed its first clinical trial, published in Nature Medicine (07 October 2019). Professor Stuart…

From  Robin Morton 0 likes 1,549 plays 0  

Anne Rowling Clinic announcement Sep 2019

J.K. Rowling donates further £15m to multiple sclerosis research The author J.K. Rowling has donated £15.3m to the University of Edinburgh to help improve the lives of people…

From  Rebecca Devon 0 likes 474 plays 0  

Fish immune cells lend clues to spinal cord repair

Scientists have found the immune system plays a key role in helping zebrafish nerve cells to regenerate after injury. The findings offer clues for developing treatments that could one day help…

From  Jen Middleton 0 likes 20 plays 0  

Mending myelin: orchestrating brain repair in MS

In her inaugural lecture Professor Anna Williams discusses how studying human MS brain tissue and laboratory models of remyelination can increase our understanding of how this repair process works…

From  Peter Crooks 0 likes 565 plays 0  

Multiple Sclerosis: success, challenges and hope

Wednesday, 17th February 2016 Dr Anna Williams, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; and Dr Dave Lyons, Centre for Neuroregeneration at the University of…

From  Jillian Hosie 0 likes 70 plays 0