News tagged with adult stem cells
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Researchers identify stem cells responsible for tissue repair
The skin, which is an essential barrier that protects our body against the external environment, undergoes constant turnover throughout life to replace dead cells that are constantly sloughed off from the skin surface. During ...
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Scientists find missing link between stem cells, immune system
UCLA researchers have discovered a type of cell that is the "missing link" between bone marrow stem cells and all the cells of the human immune system, a finding that will lead to a greater understanding of how a healthy ...
Immunology
Sep 02, 2012 |
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Moving toward regeneration: Scientists show how pluripotent stem cells mobilize in wounded planarian worms
The skin, the blood, and the lining of the gut—adult stem cells replenish them daily. But stem cells really show off their healing powers in planarians, humble flatworms fabled for their ability to rebuild ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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U of T and SickKids first to grow lung cells using stem cell technology
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are paving the way towards individualized medicine for patients with cystic fibrosis.
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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Researchers return blood cells to stem cell state
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of cell in the body.
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Aug 22, 2012 |
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Aurka-to-p53 signaling: A link between stem cell regulation and cancer
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the University of Manchester, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new role for an oncogenic signaling pathway in embryonic stem cell (ESC) self-renewal and in reprogramming ...
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Aug 03, 2012 |
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Study: Heart repairs very early in life, but not as adults
(Medical Xpress) -- In a two-day-old mouse, a heart attack causes active stem cells to grow new heart cells; a few months later, the heart is mostly repaired. But in an adult mouse, recovery from such an attack ...
Cardiology
Jul 31, 2012 |
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Adult stem cells from liposuction used to create blood vessels in the lab
Adult stem cells extracted during liposuction can be used to grow healthy new small-diameter blood vessels for use in heart bypass surgery and other procedures, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association's ...
Cardiology
Jul 25, 2012 |
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Exploring the relation between stem cells and tumor growth
An EU research project has shed light on the tumor-growth role of a key-signalling pathway in mammary gland stem cells.
Cancer
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Study results: Adult stem cells from bone marrow
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Maryland report promising results from using adult stem cells from bone marrow in mice to help create tissue cells of other organs, such as the heart, brain and pancreas ...
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Jul 03, 2012 |
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Successful transplant of patient-derived stem cells into mice with muscular dystrophy
Stem cells from patients with a rare form of muscular dystrophy have been successfully transplanted into mice affected by the same form of dystrophy, according to a new study published today in Science Tr ...
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Clues found to way embryonic kidney maintains its fleeting stem cells
Studying mice and humans, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their collaborators in Paris have identified two proteins that are required to maintain a supply of stem cells ...
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Jun 11, 2012 |
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Cell transplantation of lung stem cells has beneficial impact for emphysema
When autologous (self-donated) lung-derived mensenchymal stem cells (LMSCs) were transplanted endoscopically into 13 adult female sheep modeled with emphysema, post-transplant evaluation showed evidence of tissue regeneration ...
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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New stem cell technique promises abundance of key heart cells cardiomyocytes
Cardiomyocytes, the workhorse cells that make up the beating heart, can now be made cheaply and abundantly in the laboratory.
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May 28, 2012 |
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Stem-cell-growing surface enables bone repair
(Medical Xpress) -- University of Michigan researchers have proven that a special surface, free of biological contaminants, allows adult-derived stem cells to thrive and transform into multiple cell types. ...
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May 23, 2012 |
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