Disease knows no boundaries, but research often does. While illness affects all populations, our understanding of disease—and the effectiveness of treatments—varies dramatically across ethnic groups. This disparity stems from a longstanding bias in biomedical research, which has largely focused on European males, leaving much of our global population’s biology unexplored.
Today, the Allen Institute for Cell Science and the New York Stem Cell Foundation announced a pioneering collaboration to address this critical issue, combining two cutting-edge technologies to create more inclusive cellular models for studying disease.
This partnership will introduce the Allen Institute for Cell Science’s structure tags into NYSCF’s collection of ethnically diverse stem cell lines. The result: an unprecedented resource that will enable researchers to examine disease mechanisms and potential treatments across a spectrum of populations previously excluded from scientific studies.