Scientists from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine have recently announced the successful use of a new, small peptide to efficiently stop the growth of lung cancer tumor cells. Their paper also reveals that the small molecule also had the strength of setting the tumor into remission, reducing its size cons... |
27 August 2009
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Finding sources of stem cells is not exactly easy in most countries, considering the fact that the best research can be conducted using embryonic cells, which are naturally derived from viable human embryos. This, obviously, raises some ethical questions, therefore experts have been searching for alternatives for a l... |
24 July 2009
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Turtles are very peculiar animals altogether, researchers have learned over the years. In addition to their queer and unique body structure, they are also very difficult to analyze in terms of origins, and scientists have debated which is the closest relative to the shelled creature for a long time. While some say th... |
10 July 2009
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Experts at the University of Pittsburgh report an amazing discovery, which could lead to many potential applications in the field of medicine. Using zebrafish as model animals, they managed to accurately pinpoint an enzyme inhibitor that allows for a large increase in the number of progenitor cells inside the develop... |
6 July 2009
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Experts at the Harvard University and the Massachusetts-based enterprise Advanced Cell Technology Inc. have recently announced the fact that they've managed to create a new method of obtaining powerful embryonic stem cells, without needing an actual viable embryo. The new technique revolves around using pure hum... |
1 June 2009
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Researchers are currently trying to determine if it's feasible and possible to produce synthetic blood from embryonic stem cells. While stem cell research is heavily criticized by some and strongly supported by others, doctors say that obtaining such blood is absolutely necessary, given the fact that less and le... |
23 March 2009
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Two teams of researchers from the UK and Canada have discovered a new way of obtaining stem cells from nothing more than regular skin cells, and a few genes, which they manipulate so as to trigger the desired change in the cells. After the process, the obtained structural units behave exactly like embryonic stem ones... |
2 March 2009
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Once fertility treatments are completed, many embryos remain frozen, a byproduct of women's treatment options, which include the possibility of preserving eggs if regular therapies fail. The logic behind this is for patients to be able to have children, even if through in-vitro fertilization. But most women have... |
4 December 2008
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