In a world first, scientists have created the human developmental liver cell atlas that provides crucial insights into how the blood and immune systems develop in the foetus. It maps changes in the cellular landscape of the ...
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They've been called the "special forces" of the immune system: invariant natural killer T cells. Although there are relatively few of them in the body, they are more powerful than many other immune cells.
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Dear Mayo Clinic: Who can be a bone marrow donor? What's the process for becoming one?
Sep 19, 2019
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Many of the most common diseases, like heart failure, liver failure, Type 1 diabetes and Parkinson's disease, occur when cells or whole organs fail to do their job. Wouldn't it be fantastic if it were possible to replace ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report in a new study that they found a way to help rats recover neurons in the brain's center of learning and memory. They accomplished the feat by blocking a molecule ...
Aug 19, 2019
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A drug developed by UCLA physician-scientists and chemists speeds up the regeneration of mouse and human blood stem cells after exposure to radiation. If the results can be replicated in humans, the compound could help people ...
Aug 15, 2019
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Researchers in Oregon have engineered a material that replicates human bone tissue with an unprecedented level of precision, from its microscopic crystal structure to its biological activity. They are using it to explore ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Bone marrow contains biological factories, which pump out billions of new blood cells daily. The non-blood cells that maintain this production also have the potential to produce bone, fat and cartilage. This output all starts ...
Jul 31, 2019
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In a paper published in the July 31 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit long-lived blood stem cells to reverse the clinical symptoms observed ...
Jul 31, 2019
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The recent study from Burst Biologics challenges existing standards and outlines future safety and potency benchmarks.
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