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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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By using induced pluripotent stem cells as a starting point, researchers in the United States say they can obtain liver-like cells that could help them crack the mystery surrounding hepatitis C. The condition is puzzling because it produces different effects on patients.
The overall effects are the same – mos... |
1 February 2012
07:47 GMT |
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Though we are now consuming more drugs and chemicals than ever before, we know just as much about the broader health impacts they have on our bodies as we did decades ago. In order to rectify this error, a group of researchers is about to start conducting a new investigation on the issue.
Using a $2 million grant f... |
18 January 2012
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Individuals who lost their sense of smell due to conditions such as trauma and old age could soon have access to a new type of therapy, which will make use of genetic triggers to force the nose to renew its smell sensors. The technique is detailed in the December 8 issue of the scientific journal Neuron.
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9 December 2011
08:35 GMT |
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A group of investigators based at the Stanford University School of Medicine says that it was recently able to conduct a groundbreaking research on the causes underlying the development of autism. Specialized stem cells derived from mature skin cells were critical to this study.
What the team did was grow brain-like... |
28 November 2011
09:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators recently used advanced DNA sequencing technologies to study the functions of muscle stem cells, and were able to discover several new aspects of how they work. The work was carried out on a number of children suffering from rare, progressive muscle diseases.
By selecting this population subg... |
21 November 2011
04:26 GMT |
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A University of Bristol spin-off company called Azellon Cell Therapeutics Ltd. has now collected enough funding to begin human clinical trials of an innovative stem cell bandage it developed. The tool can be used to treat torn meniscal cartilages, and is the first of its kind.
Sun Capital partner Hugh Osmond just a... |
14 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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In a study whose conclusions could be used to develop new approaches for addressing obesity and diabetes, researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) found that adult stem cells are capable of reshaping human organs.
This ability allows the body to adapt to changes in the body and the environment. ... |
28 October 2011
04:31 GMT |
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According to investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), a new method of scanning for chemicals that could potentially treat aggressive brain tumors has just been developed.
The approach is currently being used to analyze and gage the potential ef... |
14 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Official statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that as many as 20 million people are left with various types of cardiac damages following heart attacks. With the help of a newly-proposed, stem cell-based treatment, these negative effects could be eliminated for the most part.
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14 October 2011
03:34 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United Kingdom announces the development of a biotechnology method that enables the creation of liver cells from adult, fully-differentiated skin cells. The approach involves correcting DNA spelling error in the skin cells, and then converting them into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) c... |
13 October 2011
04:10 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the New York Stem Cell Foundation announces the development of a new way of using cloning-related technology to the field of regenerative medicine. The investigators say that the methods they applies allowed human eggs to create primitive, embryonic-like stem cells. The thing that really sta... |
7 October 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Nearly 40 years ago, a group of visionaries began storing skin cells from various endangered species in deep-freeze. Now, their efforts are praised by scientists who develop methods of producing stem cells from the stored samples. These cells can be used to revive endangered or extinct species. When the conservation ... |
5 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Regenerative medicine, the field of science seeking to use stem cells for treating a wide variety of disease, has some tough challenges ahead, according to a two-year study published by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in the August 16 issue of the journal Cell Research.The team focused i... |
20 August 2011
06:42 GMT |
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While studying newts and salamanders, researchers figured out that these animals can heal their damaged hears if the need arises. Humans cannot do this, and the reason why has always eluded scientists. Now, US investigators propose a new explanation for this inability. In order to provide the most relevant results, s... |
11 August 2011
04:53 GMT |
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The development of cancer and a host of other diseases is controlled by certain genes, which are either turned on or off to promote or inhibit progress. Researchers in the United States have just recently finished mapping a DNA modification in stem cells, whose power could be harnessed for new cures.
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23 July 2011
02:41 GMT |
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In the near future, the neural damage that radiotherapy causes in patients suffering from brain cancer could be repaired using human neural stem cells. The conclusion belongs to a new study conducted by investigators at the University of California in Irvine (UCI).The research suggests that transplanting stem cells i... |
14 July 2011
08:57 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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About a decade ago, experts demonstrated that it is possible to use printers to create living tissue. In a new study, experts have taken an extremely important step forward in the effort to create printing technologies that can produce mass amounts of stem cells. By replacing printer ink cartridges with batches of ce... |
5 July 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Stem cells are the basis from which all other cells in the human body form. They can differentiate into any type of tissue, but only certain types of stem cells can take on certain forms. Now, researchers find a new type of airway stem cells. The team, which is based at the University of California in Los Angeles (UC... |
29 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to rejuvenate the cells of yeast. This allowed said cells to live up to 100 percent longer, essentially doubling their lifespan. The work is very interesting because it could lead to a doubling of human lifespan if... |
24 June 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Scientists recently discovered that stem cells in a thin layer around the heart can repair some of the damage produced by heart attacks. However, these repair cells need to be given what experts refer to as the proper biochemical motivation,The beneficial cells are located on the outside of the heart muscle, organize... |
13 June 2011
07:45 GMT |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom have reached a critical milestone in the long-term international effort of bringing stem cell research to practical application. A group of experts will soon begin the world's first clinical trials using stem cell bandages, designed specifically for knee injuries. At this time, ... |
6 June 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University have just demonstrated that it's possible to convert adult human skin cells directly into working nerve cells called neurons. Furthermore, this can be done without the need to first turn them into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.Stanford School of Medicine experts mana... |
27 May 2011
07:56 GMT |
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The worrying conclusions of a new investigation carried out on animal models reveal that the immune system may in fact attack adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells from a mouse' own tissues. This finding may have serious implications for regenerative medicine.
This relatively-new field of re... |
14 May 2011
06:03 GMT |
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According to a team of experts, stem cells extracted from a patient's own body fat can be successfully used in regenerative therapies aimed at treating that person. The applications that are now possible using this approach are plenty, experts say, so the method should be put into mainstream use.Fat-derived stem... |
4 May 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Michigan say they managed to discover the reason why people who suffer from breast or prostate cancers are very likely to experience a relapse in their condition. Most often, that relapse affects the bones. This connection has puzzled scientists for quite some time, and a lot of f... |
24 March 2011
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A particular class of neurons, that is wiped out during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, has just been derived from human embryonic stem cells by a team of experts in the United States. The discovery is groundbreaking, as it could provide researchers with the necessary tools to address this form of demen... |
5 March 2011
06:13 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United Kingdom announces an important breakthrough in the field of stem cell research. The group was able to create human motor nerve cells from embryonic stem cells (ESC) in the lab, and hope to use these cells to treat motor neuron disease.Thus far, there were no methods of gro... |
2 March 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Progress and breakthrough in the field of stem cell research is currently being stifled by the multitude of patents and privatizations of stem cell lines, data and pioneering technologies, a new analysis says. The only way to ensure we can move forward in this regard is to stop this effect, experts believe. This is t... |
11 February 2011
03:18 GMT |
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For all their potential, stem cells are currently severely underused in all applications, due to the fact that they are very hard to manufacture at clinical grades and in large-enough amounts. Now, a new method developed in the United States could make their widespread use a reality.What the team did was create an an... |
5 February 2011
06:56 GMT |
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As human beings, we are able to carry out tremendously complex actions in a heartbeat, without giving them too much thought. The brain controls all the required muscles automatically, and experts have just learned a few more additional detail of how that is done. Scientists were able to discover how nerve cells cal... |
31 January 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Around the world, small numbers of surgeons are currently pioneering therapies against a variety of conditions that rely on the use of stem cells. While the method does promise interesting results, others say that more research is needed before this approach is extended into general use. The basic ideas on which the ... |
30 January 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Scientists with the San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics Inc. are currently working on developing a method to use stem cells derived from fatty tissue for helping the heart withstand various type of long-term harm that can develop after a heart attack.Undergoing such an event is a very hard burden on the heart, which ... |
27 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A successful collaboration between Australian researchers has resulted in the development of the country's first adult induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) coming from skin biopsies from patients with the rare genetic disease Friedreich Ataxia (FA).This is actually the first time that adult iPS are developed for... |
13 January 2011
04:21 GMT |
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A UC Irvine assistant professor of ophthalmology is on the road to success with a stem cell-based therapy for retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that affects millions of Americans and people worldwide.For the past 25 years, Dr. Henry Klassen has been focusing on regenerating damaged retinal tissue so that ... |
11 January 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Scientists part of a multi-institutional collaboration led by William Weiss, MD, PhD, a neuro-oncologist at the University of California at San Francisco, found the type of cell that is at the origin of brain tumors called oligodendrogliomas (a type of glioma) – the most common type of malignant brain tumors.Th... |
7 January 2011
10:42 GMT |
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University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have found a key molecule that can establish blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow, discovery that could significantly improve the safety and efficiency of bone marrow transplants.Hematopoietic stem cells – the active ingredients of bone marrow t... |
7 January 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), a biotech company that was founded about a decade ago, has finally obtained permission from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start clinical trials on a new, embryonic stem cell-based therapy to address one of the most common causes of blindness in the US.Macular degeneratio... |
7 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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For some people, such as smokers or those who've suffered violent accidents, a lung transplant may be the only chance they have of living. But oftentimes their lives are cut short by a deadly disease, called bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). Experts have now developed a new defense against it. The debilit... |
30 December 2010
11:00 GMT |
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In a bid to expand its line of research into the therapeutic potential of adult stem cells, officials at Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (EHSI) have just signed a license agreement with NASA, giving the company the right to use bioreactors developed by the space agency for its studies. The main object of the deal... |
30 December 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A group of researchers from Washington DC managed to develop a new technology allowing them to convert stem cells in the male testes into cells capable of producing insulin in the pancreas. The achievement could lead to new drugs and therapies for conditions such as diabetes. Using the testes of organ donors, researc... |
13 December 2010
09:21 GMT |
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A team of biotechnology experts managed to create three-dimensional (3D) organ tissue using stem cells, by forcing them to undergo specific embryonic development stages, and guiding their transformation. The end results are batches of 3D intestine tissue, that feature all cell types in the gut.Obtaining all major cel... |
13 December 2010
04:59 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, revealed a new possible way of reversing the damage caused by multiple sclerosis, which consists in activating the stem cells that can repair injury in the central nervous system.This is a very important mechanism that helps the... |
6 December 2010
03:05 GMT |
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The Australian Research Council awarded $21 million to the University of Melbourne, in order to set up Stem Cells Australia – SCA.This funding for the SCA is part of the Australian Research Council’s Special Research Initiative in Stem Cell Science, and it this project will make Australia, one of the top ... |
30 November 2010
02:48 GMT |
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In a new investigation, researchers demonstrate a potential that tissues obtained from a patient's own stem cells have of turning cancerous under certain conditions. The work is meant as an alarm signal for researchers working with stem cells, who are advised to pay special attention to this possibility. The inv... |
22 November 2010
05:50 GMT |
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Future transfusions made in case of an emergency could use blood that is derived from the patients themselves, eliminating the risks of infections and incompatibilities. A research team managed to develop a way of turning adult skin cells into blood cells. The blood obtained through this mechanism could have tremendo... |
8 November 2010
04:15 GMT |
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A group of experts at the University of California in Los Angeles has been awarded a total of $10.4 million for investigating new stem cell-based therapies against deadly brain cancers, and corneal disorders, and for bone regeneration. The experts are based at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medi... |
26 October 2010
03:57 GMT |
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Increasing the efficiency and resilience of stem cells is one of the main goals in regenerative medicine today, and a team of experts may have just made an important step forward in making this a reality.The research team, based in the United Kingdom, conducted a series of investigations on human embryonic stem cells... |
25 October 2010
09:24 GMT |
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced yesterday, October 21, that it will award some $9.35 million in grant money to the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California in Irvine (UCI).They funds will go to a number of researchers, who are conducting investigat... |
22 October 2010
06:57 GMT |
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