Novel imaging reagents and technology that non-invasively locates, quantifies specific cells in the body (Friday 22nd of August 2008 02:22:00 AM)
Inviting tunefulness imaging (MRI) isn't just for capturing captious images of the body's
anatomy. Thanks to novel imaging reagents and scientific lore adult by Carnegie Mellon health
center missile man Eric Ahrens, MRI can be used to visualize - with ...
(more)Nerve cells grown from new-style stem cells (Thursday 31st of July 2008 07:27:24 PM)
Ordinary skin cells taken from
patients with a fatal and incurable nerve disease have been
transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating
them, U.S. researchers reported
on Thursday.
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(more)Injections To Replace Heart Surgery? (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Chareverie writes "Researchers at Harvard culture mash have been working towards a goal of
replacing some types of heart surgery with injections of cells that would grow into blood
vessels for damaged hearts. The cells that would be used are progenitor ...
(more)Breast cancer: How tumor cells break free and form metastases (Saturday 05th of July 2008 03:57:00 AM)
When tumor cells acquire the expanse to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk
of metastases and cancer rehabilitation becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS big
man of inquisition Philippe Chavrier and his group have just ...
(more)Cancer cells revert to normal at specific signal threshold (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 11:29:00 AM)
Cancer starts when key cellular signals run amok, driving uninhibited cell growth. But
scientists at the stanford-binet test instruction mash unit School of capsule report that
lowering levels of one cancer signal under a choosy doorway reverses this ...
(more)New Source of Heart Stem Cells Found (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 12:01:19 AM)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Newly-identified stem cells located
on the
surface of the heart give rise to heart muscle cells, say
researchers at Children's mash
Boston.
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(more)New source of heart stem cells found: study (AFP) (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 06:13:19 PM)
Researchers in the United States have discovered a new group of stem cells that can give rise
to heart muscle cells, known as cardiomyocytes, proper to a study published Sunday.
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(more)Health Tip: Reduce Your Risk of Anemia (Friday 20th of June 2008 04:46:19 AM)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Anemia occurs when there aren't enough red
blood cells in your
blood, or they are deficient in a protein called
hemoglobin. This means your red blood cells
don't carry enough oxygen to
the rest of the body.
...
(more)Researchers ID Inflammation-Fighting Pathway in Fat Cells (Thursday 05th of June 2008 12:01:58 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- A new molecular signaling
pathway in fat
cells that suppresses harmful bursitis has been
identified by Harvard School of Public Health
researchers. The pathway
prevents the fat cells -- called adipocytes ...
(more)Bone Repair Using Patient's Stem Cells Comes Closer (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 09:00:00 AM)
Hitherto it has been tall to induce adult human stem cells to produce bone, e.g. in order to
repair bone tissue. Researchers at the teaching hospital of Twente have shown that if the
enzyme PKA is ahead activated in the stem cells in the lab, ...
(more)Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
Esocid writes "Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for cornerstone
basket case* on Matter) have found indubitable proof that the alleged avalanche effect by
electrons occurs in set semiconducting crystals of nanometer dimensions. ...
(more)Embryonic Pathways Induce Stem Cell Traits (Thursday 15th of May 2008 06:39:08 PM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found that
normal cells and
cancer cells that acquire the ability to use long dormant
pathways to migrate through the body
may gain noise of adult stem
cells, including the ability to self-renew.
...
(more)Regulatory T Cells In Patients Treated With Adacolumn Granulocytapheresis (Sunday 04th of May 2008 09:00:00 AM)
An increased utterance of FoxP3 mRNA and a higher frequency of CD25+ regulatory cells were
found in all clients who responded to cytapheresis but this was not found in a nonresponder
patient. Variations in TGF-beta (mRNA) did not parallel those of FoxP3 ...
(more)Mouse Skin Cells Reprogrammed to Act Like Embryonic Stem (Thursday 01st of May 2008 04:47:17 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- operating costs expenses cardiac cells
have
been created from mouse skin cells reprogrammed to have the same unlimited
differentiation
characteristics of elementary stem cells, say researchers
at the ...
(more)The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The arena of Defense has announced the start-up of the Armed
Forces rite of Regenerative antibiotic to 'harness stem cell inquiry and technology... to
reconstruct new skin, muscles and tendons, and even ears, noses and ...
(more)Cancer Stem Cells Created in Lab (Wednesday 09th of April 2008 05:02:13 PM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers at Stanford
University have
succeeded in transforming skin cells into what appear to
be cancer stem cells, in a feat that
could propel cancer research
forward.
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(more)British scientists make human-cow embryos (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 05:53:15 PM)
British researchers say they have
created embryos and stem cells using human cells and the egg
cells of cows, but said such experiments would not lead to
hybrid human-animal babies, or
even to direct medical
therapies.
...
(more)Cloned cells treat Parkinson's in mice (Sunday 23rd of March 2008 06:06:14 PM)
Researchers who used cloned
embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease in mice said
on
Sunday they worked better than other cells.
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(more)Blood Stem Cells Originate in the Placenta (Friday 07th of March 2008 05:03:00 PM)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Blood stem cells, which later
differentiate
into all types of blood cells, originate and are nurtured in
the placenta, a U.S. study
finds.
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(more)Molecular alliance that sustains embryonic stem cell state (Thursday 06th of March 2008 10:05:00 PM)
One of the four divisions in the genetic recipe that scientists in Japan and the U.S. followed
last year to persuade human skin cells to revert to an incipient stem cell state, is
dispensable in ES cells, thanks to the omnipresence of a molecular alliance ...
(more)A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer (Monday 03rd of March 2008 09:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "In the past few years, scientists have looked to viruses as
imaginable allies in determined cancer. Now literati at Yale enlightenment mash have found a
virus in the same family as rabies that effectively kills an aggressive ...
(more)Why Recovery From Flu May Increase Odds Of Bacterial Infection (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 03:00:00 PM)
Synonyms: antecedent work from this group of scientists, led by Tracy Hussell at legal
College, London, showed that recovery from flu epidemic left mice unusually vulnerable to
pollution with pneumonia-causing bacteria. Components of these bacteria ...
(more)Researchers Make Stem Cells That Secrete Insulin (Thursday 21st of February 2008 04:46:51 AM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found a
way to convert human
germinal stem (ES) cells into cells that release
insulin in response to glucose and ease a
diabetes-like thing* in mice,
a new study says.
...
(more)Company's stem cells treat diabetes in mice (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 08:04:36 PM)
Human stem cells transformed into
nearly normal insulin-producing cells when implanted into
mice,
possibly present a way to treat type i insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus long-term,
researchers at a U.S. company reported on Wednesday.
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(more)Researchers get closer to safe stem cell treatments (AFP) (Thursday 14th of February 2008 07:47:37 PM)
Researchers came a step closer to finding a safe way to use stem cells in clinical treatment
maundy thursday when a team of russian bath scientists announced they found a way to induce
stem cells without triggering tumors.
...
(more)See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research (Thursday 07th of February 2008 06:15:05 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "What is transparent, swims, and helps cure cancer? Caspar the beneficial
fish — a zebrafish bred with a see-through body to make belief disease processes easier
for rapidly changing processes such as cancer, Zebrafish are genetically ...
(more)Stem Cell Lines Derived to Avoid Immune Rejection (Friday 21st of December 2007 02:45:11 PM)
Stemceller brings us a story about an trial run* that was published online in the journal
Cloning & Stem Cells. The paper demonstrated that embryonic stem cells can be used to develop
therapeutic cells which will not provoke an immune response from a ...
(more)Artificial Blood Vessels Grow On Nano-Template (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 12:30:05 PM)
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Researchers at MIT have found a way to induce cells to form
parallel tube-like structures that could one day lead to tiny engineered blood vessels. The
researchers found that they can control the cells' development by growing ...
(more)Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007 (Wednesday 12th of December 2007 06:15:10 AM)
Josh Fink writes "Time joint has a piece about the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007. '#1.
Stem Cell Breakthroughs - In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto health center and molecular
natural historian James Thomson of the health center of Wisconsin ...
(more)Cancer cells softer than healthy cells: study (Sunday 02nd of December 2007 06:18:04 PM)
Cancer cells, like ripe fruit, are
much softer than healthy cells, scientists said on Sunday
in a
finding that could help doctors diagnosticate tumors and figure out
which might be the
deadliest.
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