Archive: 09/02/2015
Historic US and UK dietary advice on fats 'should not have been introduced'
National dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions of US and UK citizens in 1977 and 1983, to cut coronary heart disease incidence, lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up, and "should not have been introduced," ...
Feb 9, 2015
Blood vessel cells improve the conversion of pluripotent stem cells to blood lineages
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can differentiate into all of the different types of cells that comprise the blood and immune cell lineages. HSC transplantation is the only effective treatment for certain blood disorders; ...
Feb 9, 2015
Infants with rare bone disease improve bone formation after cell transplantation
Recent research carried out by a team of researchers in Japan has investigated the use of bone marrow transplants (BMTs) to treat hypophosphatasia (HPP). In this study, the researchers carried out BMT for two infants with ...
Feb 9, 2015
Akt Pathway 'ramp ups' effects of transplanted umbilical cord cells used in stroke therapy
Researchers have known that transplanted human umbilical cord cells (HUCBCs) can have a restorative effect on the brain and brain function following a stroke. However, just how the cells exert their therapeutic effects has ...
Feb 9, 2015