A USC Stem Cell study in npj Regenerative Medicine presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in utero. Key to this repair ...
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Cancer is at its most deadly when it spreads and forms tumors in new tissues. This process, called metastasis, is responsible for the vast majority of cancer deaths, and yet there is still a lot that researchers do not know ...
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Chinese researchers have demonstrated new reconstructable uterus-derived materials (RUMs) that allow almost complete recovery from severe uterine injury. Relevant results were published online in Advanced Materials.
Jan 25, 2022
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When cancer cells metastasize, they morph, becoming missile-shaped in order to penetrate into other tissues throughout the body.
Dec 16, 2021
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A type of cell transformation known as EMT enables cancer cells to break away from the tumor and form metastases elsewhere. However, this process does not always take place in full. Researchers at the University of Basel ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of cancer treatment that help the immune system's T cells recognize and attack tumors. But these immunotherapy drugs aren't effective against all cancers. In a study published today ...
Nov 12, 2021
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A team of clinicians and scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has identified a novel method to treat triple-negative ...
Oct 6, 2021
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From the time of Aristotle, it has been known that the human liver has the greatest regenerative capacity of any organ in the body, being able to regrow even from a 70% amputation, which has enabled live-donor transplants. ...
Aug 2, 2021
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It's often cancer's spread, not the original tumor, that poses the disease's most deadly risk.
Jun 10, 2021
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Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting ...
Apr 27, 2021
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