Over the past three decades, efforts to improve the results of standard treatment for patients with severe aplastic anemia have been largely unsuccessful. The phase III RACE trial, sponsored by the European Society for Blood ...
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Drugs we take like prednisone can weaken our bones and so can aging, and scientists working to prevent both have some of the first evidence that the best target may not be the logical one.
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The research group Immunology of Fungal Infections at the University of Valencia (UV) has investigated a fungal vaccine with which to train stem cells and hematopoietic progenitors (which produce all the cells of the blood ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Researchers from DTU and Copenhagen University are the first to show that protein analysis at the single cell level in a tumor sample from an acute myeloid leukemia patient can be used to detect cancer stem cells that evade ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Over a decade ago, UCLA physician-scientists began using a pioneering gene therapy they developed to treat children born with a rare and deadly immune system disorder. They now report that the effects of the therapy appear ...
Oct 15, 2021
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are thought to have great potential in the field of regenerative medicine, which has the aim of restoring damaged tissues. However, not much was known about in vivo plasticity of them—until ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Hundreds of clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures caught a big break from the U.S. government in 2017: They would have three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked before regulators ...
Sep 30, 2021
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As we age, our bones become thinner, we suffer fractures more often, and bone-diseases such as osteoporosis are more likely to occur. One responsible mechanism involves the impaired function of the bone-marrow stem cells, ...
Sep 13, 2021
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In the United States, as many as 187,000 people are coping with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) that damage the bone marrow's ability to produce healthy blood cells.
Sep 1, 2021
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Hematopoietic stem cells—the precursors to blood cells—have been notoriously difficult to grow in a dish, a critical tool in basic research. Scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified ...
Aug 12, 2021
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