Physicians at Rush University Medical Center became the first in Illinois to inject AST-OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells), an experimental treatment, into the damaged cervical spine of a recently paralyzed man as part ...
Sep 14, 2016
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In a first-of-its-kind look at human kidney development, researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have isolated human nephron progenitor (NP) cells. Their results, published online in ...
Sep 12, 2016
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Scientists have revealed molecular differences between how the African and Asian strains of Zika virus infect neural progenitor cells.
Sep 1, 2016
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A new study in animal models, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), suggests that the eye's lacrimal glands can be repaired by injecting a kind of regenerative "progenitor" cell.
Aug 18, 2016
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Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University scientists have found exciting, new functions of the protein angiogenin (ANG) that play a significant role in the regulation of blood cell formation, important in bone marrow transplantation ...
Aug 11, 2016
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Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors—even as it changed the lives of the babies born with it during the pre-Zika era.
Aug 5, 2016
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When adults develop blood cancer, they are frequently diagnosed with what is referred to as acute myeloid leukemia. The disease is triggered by pathological alterations of bone marrow cells, in which, in addition, an important ...
Jul 14, 2016
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An Emory study published online this week in Circulation Research suggests that a disruption in the body's own regenerative capacity, measured by levels of circulating progenitor cells, may contribute to the development of ...
Jun 13, 2016
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Research into kidney regeneration, an organ that has been extremely difficult to regenerate, has taken a great stride forward with research coming out of a collaboration between Kumamoto University, Japan and the National ...
Jun 6, 2016
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The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Jun 3, 2016
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