Hospital nurseries routinely place soft bands around the tiny wrists of newborns that hold important identifying information such as name, sex, mother, and birth date. Researchers at Rockefeller University are taking the ...
Sep 28, 2023
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Stanford Medicine researchers are hopeful that a proof-of-concept treatment in mice—blood stem cell transplants—may reduce signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Sep 22, 2023
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For the first time, researchers have shown it is possible to repair damaged lung tissue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the patients' own lung cells.
Sep 12, 2023
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A Japanese research team led by the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute has identified for the first time progenitor cells that specifically transform into the contractile cells of the left ventricle ...
Sep 6, 2023
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In a paper, "Epitope editing enables targeted immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukaemia," published in Nature, researchers at the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, introduce a genetic ...
Researchers from the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), a joint venture between Boston University and Boston Medical Center, have discovered a novel approach for engrafting engineered cells into injured lung tissue. ...
Aug 24, 2023
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A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear, because the sensory hearing cells of the inner ear don't regenerate after damage. In two new studies, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences ...
Aug 14, 2023
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In the ongoing search for a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a burgeoning branch of medicine is bringing new hope. Stem cell therapies are already being used to treat various cancers and disorders of the blood and immune system. ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Oeiras) and Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG, Dresden) identified a new mechanism that exposes some of the multitasking abilities embryos ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Brain-computer interface (BCI)—an experimental technology that makes it possible to move robotic limbs using only one's thoughts—holds promise to transform the lives of people with paralysis. But before BCI can make the ...
Aug 2, 2023
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