News tagged with regenerative medicine

New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies

Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies ...

HIV & AIDS created May 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study suggests new source of kidneys for transplant

Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too ...

Medical research created May 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do salamanders hold the solution to regeneration?

Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have ...

Medical research created May 20, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Fat cells prolong survival of human stem cells grown in vitro

One of the main obstacles that stands in the way of using human hematopoietic stem cells (hHSCs) to treat a variety of diseases is the difficulty growing them in culture—they quickly die or differentiate ...

Medical research created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pre-clinical research shows promising treatment for diabetic wounds using stem cells

Pre-clinical research has generated some very promising findings using adult stem cells for the treatment of diabetic wounds. The research carried out by scientists at the National University of Ireland Galway, ...

Diabetes created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fighting fat with fat: Stem cell discovery identifies potential obesity treatment

Ottawa scientists have discovered a trigger that turns muscle stem cells into brown fat, a form of good fat that could play a critical role in the fight against obesity. The findings from Dr. Michael Rudnicki's ...

Medical research created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New methods for quantifying antisense drug delivery to target cells and tissues

Powerful antisense drugs that target disease-associated genes to block their expression can be used to treat a broad range of diseases. Though antisense therapy has been proven effective, challenges remain ...

Medical research created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Petri dish lens' gives hope for new eye treatments

(Medical Xpress)—A cure for congenital sight impairment caused by lens damage is closer following research by scientists at Monash University.

Ophthalmology created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Not all stem cells are equally efficient for use in regenerative medicine

Scientists at the University of Granada and Alcalá de Henares University have found out that not all isolated stem cells are equally valid in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. In a paper recently published in ...

Medical research created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New company applies regenerative medicine to corneal transplantation

Ocular Systems, Inc. (OSI), Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the North Carolina Eye Bank have formed a new company based on a promising new technology aimed at engineering replacement corneas in the lab for transplantation.

Ophthalmology created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method for creating long-lived stem cells used for bone replacement

Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) can develop into bone cells and are useful for tissue engineering and regeneration. However, when grown in the laboratory they quickly lose their ability to continue dividing ...

Medical research created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein injection points to muscular dystrophy treatment

Scientists have discovered that injecting a novel human protein into muscle affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy significantly increases its size and strength, findings that could lead to a therapy akin to the use of insulin ...

Medical research created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers restore coordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury

(Medical Xpress)—In a collaboration between the University's Veterinary School and MRC's Regenerative Medicine Centre, scientists used a unique type of cell to regenerate the damaged part of the dogs' spines. The researchers ...

Neuroscience created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Different kind of stem cell' possesses attributes favoring regenerative medicine

A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the new and powerful cells they first created in the laboratory a year ago constitute a new stem-like state of adult epithelial cells. They say these ...

Medical research created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is the detection of early markers of Epstein Barr virus of diagnostic value?

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the cause of infectious mononucleosis and a risk for serious disease in liver transplant recipients. Molecular tests that can identify early protein markers produced by EBV may ...

Other created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Regenerative medicine

Regenerative medicine refers a group of biomedial approches to healing that involve stem cells. One is the injection of stem cells or progenitor cells (stem cell treatments); another the induction of regeneration by introduced substances; and a third is transplantion of in vitro grown organs and tissues.

For more information about Regenerative medicine, read the full article at Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Related topics: stem cells