Ke Cheng

Sep 11, 2015

Spheroid Stem Cell Production Sows Hope for IPF Treatment

Instead of attempting to isolate and sort individual lung stem cells or genetically convert other types of cells into lung stem cells, Cheng used a multicellular spheroid method to harvest and grow them. A spheroid is a three-dimensional cellular structure that has...

Mar 12, 2015

Heart of the Matter: Veterinary Research and America’s Heart Disease Burden

From a comparative medicine standpoint, animals are critical for our understanding of cardiac diseases such as atherosclerosis, dilated cardiomyopathy, or congenital cardiac disorders. Dogs and cats are natural...

Oct 2, 2014

New Nanomedicine Improves Stem Cell Therapy, May Help Regenerate Healthy Heart Tissue

MagBICE engaging therapeutic stem cells with injured cardiomyocytes, Illustration by Alice Harvey. A targeted nanoparticle created by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute may help heart attack patients regenerate healthy heart tissue without using donated or processed stem cells. This new nanomedicine could also alleviate some of the difficulties involved…

Aug 18, 2014

A Conversation with Ke Cheng, NC State University Professor of Regenerative Medicine

The ability to regenerate human tissues and organs once considered a futuristic possibility today is a fast growing medical specialty and the focus of one of the investigative cores at North Carolina State University’s Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research. Regenerative Medicine—the process of replacing or regenerating cells, tissues or organs to restore or…

Aug 18, 2014

Researcher Repairs Damaged Heart Tissue with Adult Stem Cells

Stem cell therapy is a promising option for repairing heart tissue damaged by heart attack. However, the main obstacle to cardiac stem cell therapy also happens to be pretty difficult to get around – and that’s the fact that the heart is constantly in motion. “Cell retention is always problematic when you do cell transplantation,…

Dec 9, 2013

Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program at NC State Includes a Regenerative Medicine Component

The ability to regenerate human cells, tissues, and organs was once considered a futuristic possibility but today regenerative medicine is a fast growing medical specialty and the focus of one of the investigative cores at North Carolina State University’s Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research. Seven years ago the then new field was described…