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Thursday, 02 September 2010 18:19 |
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate breast tissue, provide a better understanding of the role of adult stem cells in breast cancer development, and develop potential new targets for anti-cancer drugs.
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 14:54 |
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New York is home to many research labs that use stem cells—and all are affected by the recent ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that placed a preliminary injunction preventing federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 13:53 |
Nerve cell production in the human brain is directly related to learning and memory, according to a new study from the University of Florida. The findings, published online and in an upcoming print issue of the journal Brain, are the first to show such a link in humans.
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 18:58 |
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Great excitement greeted the discovery a few years ago that certain cells from mice and humans could be reprogrammed to become inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), as they hold promise for cell replacement therapy and modeling human disease.
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:00 |
By creating diseased liver cells from a small sample of human skin, scientists have now shown that stem cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited disorders. The University of Cambridge researchers' findings, which will hopefully lead to new treatments for those suffering from liver diseases, were published August 25 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:22 |
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A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:23 |
A UC Irvine study is the first to demonstrate that human neural stem cells can restore mobility in cases of chronic spinal cord injury, suggesting the prospect of treating a much broader population of patients.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:27 |
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A UCSF-led team has discovered at least one key reason why blood stem cells are susceptible to developing the genetic mutations that can lead to adult leukemia. Their finding also may explain, they say, why some other age-related hematological disorders develop.
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 18:30 |
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed a gene named Prox1 is a key player in normal development of a brain structure crucial for learning and memory and remains active throughout life, nurturing the cells vital for making new memories.
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 13:34 |
RESEARCHERS WORKING at the forefront of stem cell technology may also unexpectedly have come up with a cure for baldness.
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 15:52 |
Giving people with chronic heart failure injections of their own bone-marrow stem cells appears to improve their heart function and extend their lives, new research suggests.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:56 |
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Embryonic stem cell research has once again come to a grinding halt in labs across the country following a federal district judge's ruling that President Obama's expanded guidelines violated a ban on using federal money to destroy embryos.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 12:50 |
Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue that becomes the inner ear. Patches of sensory structures began growing in spots where they don't normally appear.
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 18:02 |
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Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCB) used to treat cultured rat brain cells (astrocytes) deprived of oxygen appear to protect astrocytes from cell death after stroke-like damage, reports a team of researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:24 |
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Earlier this month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought a legal injunction against a US stem cell clinic to halt their treatments – stem cells that are taken from patients and grown before administration at sites of tissue or bone injury (see Nature news).
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:19 |
Human pluripotent stem cells, which can become any other kind of body cell, hold great potential to treat a wide range of ailments, including Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:25 |
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The first successful report of using cell-depleted lung as a natural growth matrix for generating new rat lung from embryonic stem cells is presented in a breakthrough article in Tissue Engineering, Part A, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
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Monday, 23 August 2010 17:33 |
The findings by Toronto University researchers - Daniel Durocher, Anne-Claude Gingras and Frank Sicheri - show how cells regulate their genetic material.
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 17:33 |
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A study led by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been found.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:26 |
A study led by a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has revealed a unique "partnership" between two types of bone marrow stem cells, which could lead to advances in regenerative medicine.
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