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Treating the heart of an infant is radically different from doing the same with the heart of an adult, as any pediatric surgeon may tell you. Now, this is bound to get easier, thanks to an achievement reached by Rice University scientists.
The team was able to coerce stem cells derived from amniotic fluid to differe... |
6 February 2012
09:23 GMT |
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The Mike Gooley Trailfinders Charity and the Prostate Cancer Charity have just awarded a £100,000 ($159,000, €115,000) grant to researchers at the University of Bristol, for the development of a method to destroy prostate cancer tumors by starving them of blood.
The main beneficiary of the research grant... |
21 October 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Tissue engineers at the Northwestern University announce the development of a new type of nanofibers, that can be used to boost the regenerative abilities of blood vessels. This could aid people who've just suffered a stroke or heart attack, the team says. Patients diagnosed with peripheral arterial diseases, or... |
3 August 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh announce the development of a new approach to promoting the regrowth of human blood vessels that are affected during a wide range of heart conditions. The team here says that a single molecule is capable of boosting the growth of these vessels. The nerve growth factor was f... |
3 August 2011
03:54 GMT |
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A team of doctors has determined that it is possible to reduce the intensity of chronic chest pains in patients by injecting stem cells into their hearts. The cells themselves are extracted from the recipients' own bone marrows, and they apparently work by promoting blood vessel growth.This approach is especiall... |
11 July 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Once oncologists discover a tumor in a patient, their primary objective is to ensure that the cells do not spread in the surrounding tissue, and then further in the body, Experts have now discovered a new protein that could make this job easier than ever. The molecule identified in this study plays a significant role... |
13 May 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Glioblastoma, the most common and deadly form of brain cancer, resists almost all treatments, and researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies think the reason for this is the tumor cells' extreme flexibility.Once they feel a life-threatening oxygen shortage, glioblastoma cells can turns into blood... |
25 January 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Following the attack that saw US Representative Gabrielle Giffords being shot in the head by an assailant on Saturday, January 8, the issue of brain injuries has again been brought into the spotlight, with experts trying to determine what's needed for a person to survive following such an event.The US official i... |
10 January 2011
04:39 GMT |
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One of the main obstacles associated with treating diseases affecting the human brain is the defense system nature set in place, in order to prevent microorganisms from migrating to the cortex. Experts are now investigating methods of opening up this barrier in order to develop advanced therapies.Some of the diseases... |
8 December 2010
07:26 GMT |
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People suffering from Alzheimer’s also have serious blood flow problems in the brain, and a team of scientists in Bristol might have just come up with a solution.They have discovered some of the processes responsible for the leaky blood vessels within the brain, and their findings could turn existing drugs into... |
7 December 2010
08:17 GMT |
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Scientists have created a system of blood vessels that interacts with the tissue surrounding an implanted device, prevents the formation of the scar tissue around it and preserves its longevity and function, a new study finds.Researchers of the University of Louisville/ Jewish Hospital's Cardiovascular Innovatio... |
23 August 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Strokes can have debilitating consequences on the human body, and one of the most dangerous is the formation of blood clots inside vessels in the brain. Cerebral blood flow is considerably impaired during and after such an incident, and experts say that in excess of a million nerve cells die each minute. This happens... |
9 June 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced yesterday that they managed to create a special gel to promote blood vessel growth. The substance is very rich in enzymes and growth agents, and encourages new circulatory systems to form around an affected area, its creators say. The work, wh... |
22 December 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Scientist have suspected for a long time that we may be receiving extra information from within our bodies, in addition to the data we receive from our nervous system. The latter allows us to touch and sense objects, and is made possible by countless free nerve endings, right underneath the skin. But now, experts say... |
9 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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The strife in medicine today is to push science to a level advanced enough to produce replacement bones, tissues, skin and other organs from various types of stem cells. While this is definitely a possibility, work in this field is hindered by the fact that growing a kidney in a bioreactor, for instance, is kind of p... |
14 October 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and molecular engineering at JHU's Whiting School of Engineering, is the proud beneficiary of some 460,000 dollars, which she has received in order to continue her research of transforming stem cells into blood vessels, a technology that could potentially help d... |
19 February 2009
08:13 GMT |
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The sweet stuff has been an attraction at fun fairs and various social gatherings for more than 100 years now, but during all this time no one thought that the innocent-looking cotton candy could actually prove one day to be the solution of one of medicine's greatest problems – how to create small and intr... |
12 February 2009
05:28 GMT |
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A new medical breakthrough, made by researchers at the University of Verona, in Italy, revealed the mechanisms that trigger epileptic seizures in mice. Miscoordination between the immune cells and the blood vessels in the brain can lead to the release of compounds that cause the inflammation of the vessels, thus trig... |
25 November 2008
04:25 GMT |
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A new scientific study goes into more depths on how music affects people. Only this time the scientists didn't focus their research on the effects music entices on the brain, but, rather, they wanted to know how the heart reacted to one's favorite music. They discovered that listening to music they enjoyed ... |
12 November 2008
08:45 GMT |
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It seems that the incredible SF journey from "Fantastic Voyage" could become a reality, after all! It's finally here: the miniature robot developed but the Israeli scientists! Yes, you get it right, there was no Japanese, Koreans or Chinese cell brain involved in the project.Anyway, the robotic creature is only ... |
28 June 2007
03:56 GMT |
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