Medical research
Q&A: Bone marrow transplants save lives but more donors are needed
Dear Mayo Clinic: Who can be a bone marrow donor? What's the process for becoming one?
Sep 19, 2019
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Medical research
Host tissue T cells may have an unexpected role in graft-versus-host disease
Allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a procedure that infuses a donor's healthy blood-forming stem cells into a recipient as part of a potentially curative therapy for cancer. While this therapy can ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Breakthrough in cancer cell screening advances personalised treatment of childhood leukaemia
Researchers at Newcastle University have been able to accurately predict how children whose cancer returns after treatment for leukaemia are likely to respond to further treatment.
Aug 18, 2016
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Immunology
Immune cells repurpose a stem cell transcription factor as a pathogen sensor
(Medical Xpress)—Among the most abundant of the immune system's first responders, neutrophil granulocytes comprise up to 75 percent of the body's white blood cells. During the acute phase of inflammation, neutrophils migrate ...
Medical research
New cells may help treat diabetes
Starting from human skin cells, researchers at the University of Iowa have created human insulin-producing cells that respond to glucose and correct blood-sugar levels in diabetic mice. The findings may represent a first ...
Jan 28, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists make strides toward an 'off-the-shelf' immune cell therapy for cancer
Immunotherapies, which harness the body's natural defenses to combat disease, have revolutionized the treatment of aggressive and deadly cancers. But often, these therapies—especially those based on immune cells—must ...
Nov 16, 2021
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Genetics
Not only in DNA's hands: Epigenetics has large say in blood formation
Blood stem cells have the potential to turn into any type of blood cell, whether it be the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, or the many types of white blood cells of the immune system that help fight infection. How exactly ...
Aug 11, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
2 stem cell patients stop HIV drugs, no virus seen (Update)
Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still show no detectable sign of the HIV virus, researchers said Wednesday.
Jul 3, 2013
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Medical research
New treatment prevents transplant rejection
A new treatment strategy could increase the success rate of stem cell transplants, according to University of Queensland researchers.
Oct 16, 2018
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Surgery
Clinical trial: First cardiac bioimplants for treatment of myocardial infarction using umbilical cord stem cells
The results of a pioneering study support the safety of the bioimplants called PeriCord, made from stem cells of the umbilical cord and pericardium from a tissue donor, which aid in the regeneration and revascularization ...
Apr 5, 2024
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