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Diabetes distresses bone marrow stem cells by damaging their microenvironment

New research has shown the presence of a disease affecting small blood vessels, known as microangiopathy, in the bone marrow of diabetic patients. While it is well known that microangiopathy is the cause of renal damage, ...

Diabetes created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tuberculosis may lurk in bone marrow stem cells of infected patients, researchers say

Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that kills nearly 2 million people worldwide each year. Although antibiotics exist that can ameliorate the symptoms, the courses of therapy last for months and don't completely eradicate ...

Medical research created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists gain new understanding of latent tuberculosis

Scientists at the Forsyth have gained new insight on how Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global epidemic. Although drugs have been available to fight TB for 50 years, the disease still infects nearly 2.2 billion people worldwide ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soldier looks forward to driving with new arms (Update)

A U.S. soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq says he's looking forward to driving and swimming with new arms after undergoing a double-arm transplant.

Surgery created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soldier who lost four limbs has double-arm transplant (Update)

The first U.S. soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant.

Surgery created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cells aid recovery from stroke

Stem cells from bone marrow or fat improve recovery after stroke in rats, finds a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Treatment with stem cells improved the amount of bra ...

Medical research created Jan 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Helping healthy cells could be key to fighting leukemia, research suggests

Researchers at Imperial College London have shown that keeping healthy blood cells alive could be a more important tool in the fight against leukaemia than keeping cancerous cells at bay.

Cancer created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team finds gene that promotes drug resistance in cancer

Scientists from the University of Iowa and Brigham Young University (BYU) have identified a gene that may be a target for overcoming drug resistance in cancer. The finding could not only improve prognostic and diagnostic ...

Cancer created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research refutes claim iPSCs are prone to immune response

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Japan have injected induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mice back into genetically identical mice and report that doing so caused no immune reaction. This contradicts the results ...

Medical research created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Landmark study in blood stem cell transplant

(Medical Xpress)—Before all the excitement about embryonic stem cells, doctors were using hematopoetic – that is, blood-forming—stem cells. Hematopoetic stem cells can replenish all the types of cells in the blood, ...

Medical research created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mitochondrial components are a possible trigger of auto-inflammatory illnesses

(Medical Xpress)—Many illnesses, including psoriasis, include inflammatory responses that occur without an apparent infection and worsen with stress. In a study using cultured human mast cells in vitro and in rats, researchers ...

Inflammatory disorders created Jan 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists shed new light on mechanisms of T-ALL, a form of leukemia that primarily affects children

Acute lymphatic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children under the age of 14 years. With optimum treatment, approximately 75 % of children are currently cured, but the treatment consists of severe chemotherapy ...

Cancer created Dec 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new biomarker for cancer in bone marrow: Promise for patients of multiple myeloma

Singapore scientists have identified FAIM, a molecule that typically prevents cell death, as a potential biomarker to identify an incurable form of cancer in the bone marrow. Patients with this form of cancer usually do not ...

Cancer created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pre-transplant umbilical cord blood expansion speeds establishment of new blood supply in patients

Donated umbilical cord blood establishes a new blood supply in patients more quickly after transplantation when it is first expanded in the lab on a bed of cells that mimics conditions in the bone marrow, researchers report ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US doctors defeat leukemia with modified HIV (Update)

US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus.

Medical research created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1