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Major advance in understanding risky but effective multiple sclerosis treatment

A new study by Multiple Sclerosis researchers at three leading Canadian centres addresses why bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has positive results in patients with particularly aggressive forms of MS. The transplantation ...

Neuroscience created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Developing our sense of smell: Biologists pinpoint the origin of olfactory nerve cells

When our noses pick up a scent, whether the aroma of a sweet rose or the sweat of a stranger at the gym, two types of sensory neurons are at work in sensing that odor or pheromone. These sensory neurons are ...

Neuroscience created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reversing blood and freshening it up

The blood of young and old people differs. In an article published recently in the scientific journal Blood, a research group at Lund University in Sweden explain how they have succeeded in rejuvenating the blood of mice b ...

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Amniotic fluid stem cells repair gut damage

Stem cells taken from amniotic fluid were used to restore gut structure and function following intestinal damage in rodents, in new research published in the journal Gut. The findings pave the way for a new form of cell t ...

Medical research created Mar 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Judges side with FDA in rejecting stem cell device

(AP)—A federal appeals court is siding with the Food and Drug Administration in a case brought by medical device maker Cytori, ruling that the agency was correct to reject fast-track approval for two company devices used ...

Medications created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists provide insights into incurable brain disease

(Medical Xpress)—Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Griffith University and University of Queensland scientists researching a degenerative brain disease have developed a new way to understand its progression and ...

Genetics created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology is key to better epilepsy treatment

(Medical Xpress)—University of Adelaide scientists are making a major impact on the understanding and diagnosis of epilepsy, which will lead to individualised treatments for sufferers.

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method developed to expand blood stem cells for bone marrow transplant

More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. A research team led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators may have solved a major issue of expanding adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Differences in bone healing in mice may hold answers to bone healing for seniors

(Medical Xpress)—By studying the underlying differences in gene expression during healing after a bone break in young versus aged mice, Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School ...

Surgery created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better cartilage repairs using stem cells

Using adult stem cells is a good way of culturing better-quality cartilage to repair worn hips and knees. New cartilage that has good properties can be grown in particular by cultivating adult stem cells ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cells entering heart can be tracked with nano-'hitchhikers'

The promise of repairing damaged hearts through regenerative medicine—infusing stem cells into the heart in the hope that these cells will replace worn out or damaged tissue—has yet to meet with clinical success. But ...

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

Stem cell research could expand clinical use of regenerative human cells

Research led by a biology professor in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has uncovered a method to produce retinal cells from regenerative human stem cells ...

Medical research created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Third-party blood stem cell transplantation as a factor to impact on poor graft function

When a research team in China evaluated the efficacy and safety of using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) expanded from the bone marrow of non-self-donors to treat patients experiencing poor graft function (PGF) after receiving ...

Medical research created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cells transplantation technique has high potential as a novel therapeutic strategy for ED

Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells cultivated on the surface of nanofibrous meshes could be a novel therapeutic strategy against post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction (ED), conclude the authors of a study which is ...

Medical research created Mar 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Transplanted brain cells in monkeys light up personalized therapy

For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells, according to the authors of ...

Medical research created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast