Medical research
Scientists grow human esophagus in lab
Scientists working to bioengineer the entire human gastrointestinal system in a laboratory now report using pluripotent stem cells to grow human esophageal organoids.
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers find adult stem cell characteristics in aggressive cancers from different tissues
UCLA researchers have discovered genetic similarities between the adult stem cells responsible for maintaining and repairing epithelial tissues—which line all of the organs and cavities inside the body—and the cells that ...
Sep 19, 2018
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Medical research
Genetic testing helps predict disease recurrence in myelodysplastic syndrome
A DNA-based analysis of blood cells soon after a stem cell transplant can predict likelihood of disease recurrence in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a group of cancerous disorders characterized by dysfunctional ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Research team identifies a potential strategy in fight against brain cancer
Scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute say a gene involved in the body's circadian rhythms is a potential target for therapies to help patients with a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
Sep 11, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers unlock secret of deadly brain cancer's 'immortality'
UC San Francisco researchers have discovered how a mutation in a gene regulator called the TERT promoter—the third most common mutation among all human cancers and the most common mutation in the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma—confers ...
Sep 10, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Study identifies an unexpected cell population key to blood cancer relapse
McMaster University researchers have provided evidence of new cancerous cells they have termed cancer regenerating cells, which are responsible for the return of acute myeloid leukemia after remission.
Sep 10, 2018
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Immunology
Researchers find elusive source of most abundant immune cell
Neutrophils—short-lived, highly mobile and versatile—outnumber all other immune cells circulating through the blood stream. Yet, despite the cells' abundance, the progenitor cell that only gives rise to neutrophils had ...
Aug 28, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Nowhere to hide: Molecular probe illuminates elusive cancer stem cells in live mice
After a primary tumor is treated, cancer stem cells may still lurk in the body, ready to metastasize and cause a recurrence of the cancer in a form that's more aggressive and resistant to treatment. University of Illinois ...
Aug 1, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
How targeting metabolism can defeat cancer stem cells
Researchers are the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer are unraveling a crucial thread that explains why cancer so often becomes resistant to treatment.
Jul 3, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Without 'yoga and chardonnay' leukemia stem cells are stressed to death
Change is stressful. The change that a healthy blood stem cell undergoes to become a leukemia stem cell (LSC) is no exception—think of healthy blood stem cells as young professionals and the transformation into an LSC as ...
Jun 14, 2018
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