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| How Muscle Growth Is Triggered By Exercise |
We take it for granted, but the fact that our muscles grow when we work them makes them rather unique. Now, researchers have identified a key ingredient needed for that bulking up to ... |
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| Stem cells may help damaged heart mend itself |
London: Scientists have discovered a way to transform ordinary tissue into beating heart muscle cells, a finding they say could soon pave the way for new therapeutic approaches ... |
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| Given time, stem cells may mutate |
"While it is reassuring that 75 percent of the stem cell lines studied remained normal after prolonged growth in the laboratory, detecting and eliminating abnormal cells is an absolute prerequisite for ... |
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| Stem Cells Make Liver & Pancreas Cells to Scale |
By producing medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human stem cells, Canadian scientists have overcome a major hurdle in developing treatments for diabetes and liver diseases ... |
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| Stem Cells Facilitate Disease Study |
By extracting stem cells from individuals with diseases like diabetes, Down syndrome and schizophrenia, and then recreating the diseases in laboratory conditions ... |
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| Immune system can abort stem cell regeneration |
Washington: The immune system`s T-cells, which protect our body from invading pathogens and illnesses, can also abort stem cells from regrowing bone and tissue, a key factor in bone regeneration. The study, conducted by the Centre for ... |
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| Protection for brains (Part 2) |
Similar thinking has prompted scientists to wonder whether genetically modifying our brains might protect them against neurodegenerative diseases, which, as the population rises, are becoming an ever greater burden on society. Given the ... |
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| Body of research (Part 1) |
We may soon be able to control mechanical limbs just by using our brains, grow a new heart after a heart attack or replace faulty genes. Ian Sample takes a look at the future of our species ... |
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| Adult Stem Cells: the power of placenta |
You are unlikely to learn this from any UK news source but an international conference was held in Rome on 9-11 November devoted to medical applications of adult stem cells. The Vatican Pontifical Council had earlier announced a 5-year ... |
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| Could breast milk solve the stem cell controversy? |
The use of embryonic stem cells in medical research has been a hot-button moral and ethical debate for years — but there may be a way to sidestep the issue entirely. Scientists have now isolated embryonic-like stem cells in human breast milk ... |
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| Recipient's immune system governs stem cell regeneration |
Controlling a stem cell transplant recipient's immune response may be major key to successful bone regeneration. A new study in Nature Medicine describes how different types of immune system T-cells alternately discourage and encourage stem cells to regrow bone and tissue ... |
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| Stem cell steak: Growing your own meat |
Pink in the middle, thick, juicy, and grilled either side in a lightly toasted bun with a side of chunky chips. Oh yes, most of us go weak at the knees for a well-cooked hamburger, but the classic quarter pounder as we know it could be changing. Dutch professor Mark Post has been given ... |
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| Scientists Successful in Rejuvenating Cells in Elderly Patients |
A research team has accomplished the rejuvenation of cells from elderly donors, which could prove to be beneficial for regenerative medicine. A research team from the Functional Genomics Institute has successfully reprogrammed cells from elderly donors in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells ... |
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| Human breast milk 'stem cells' circumvent embryonic dilemma |
RESEARCH at the UWA Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group has discovered stem cell-like cells in breast milk with the potential to be used as an ethical, non-invasive alternative to stem cell therapies. In 2007 the Hartmann Group published a paper ... |
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| Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients |
HOUSTON, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced publication in The New England Journal of Medicine of clinical results using a new therapy that demonstrated rapid and complete reversal of graft-versus-host ... |
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| The win for ethics is a loss for therapies |
The decision by the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) on stem cell patents is a major blow to the UK's biopharmaceutical industry and is one of the most definitive rulings yet to come down on the side of ethics over therapies. However, supporters of the Court's ... |
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| Stem cell hope for elderly patients |
Researchers were able to successfully transform cells from patients as old as 100 into stem cells virtually identical to those found in embryos. If these can be used to grow healthy tissue which can safely be transplanted into elderly patients it could open up new avenues of treatment for the ... |
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| Synthetic Blood: What is Needed to Accept It? |
Researchers have expressed concerns on whether society can develop an acceptance of synthetic blood that is manufactured from embryonic stem cells. They have also questioned if people will develop an appetite for synthetic meat produced by related technology ... |
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| Adult Stem Cells Reboot the Immune System (Part 1) |
Advances using adult stem cells promise to revolutionize the treatment of numerous diseases. In this first post of a two-part series, I focus on the treatment of a patient with a devastating autoimmune disorder. Molly Foley, a marketing consultant in Rock Island, Illinois, was just 33... |
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| Stem Cell Breakthrough has Therapies Potential |
Scientists from the universities of Southampton and Glasgow have uncovered a new method for culturing adult stem cells which could lead to the creation of revolutionary stem cell therapies for conditions such as arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease... |
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| The rebirth of stem cells |
A decade after George Bush set the clock back for stem cell research, the science is showing signs of regeneration. Stem cells are mother cells that give rise to other cell types in the body. One... |
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| SCIENCE: Stem cells: It takes more than genes to control them |
The fate of stem cells isn't controlled by genes alone, new research from a UC San Diego scientist has found. The research holds the promise of better control of these cells, which researchers around the world are attempting to turn into treatments for currently incurable diseases ... |
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| A Novel Airway Stem Cell Discovered By Scientists... |
A new type of pulmonary stem cell has been identified by scientists at UCLA. These cells have a potential to regenerate large damaged airways and play an important role in strengthening immunity against infectious agents and environmental toxins ... |
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| Scientists Uncover More Secrets of Why Hair Turns Gray |
The science of hair color, or lack thereof, isn't very well understood. Many questions remain as to why old age and extreme stress can cause hair to turn gray. Now, new research has advanced our scientific understanding of the graying process ... |
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| Potential application of adipose-derived stem cells ... |
Importance of the field: Adipose tissue is one of the richest sources of mesenchymal stem cells. Even more interesting is the fact that adipose0derived stem cells(ASCs) show an outstangding ability to regenerate damaged skin … |
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| What Decides Neural Stem Cell Fate? |
Early in embryonic development, the neural crest - a transient group of stem cells - gives rise to parts of the nervous system and several other tissues. But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types … |
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| Stem Cell trial volunteers thank doctors at reunion lunch |
More than 50 patients reunited Friday to thank doctors who are treating them in a new series of clinical trials at University of Miami by injecting stem cells into their damaged hearts to heal them. Optimism reigned, although final results are years away … |
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| Myocardial regeneration potential of adipose tissue-derived stem cells |
arious tissue resident stem cells are receiving attention from basic scientists and clinicians as they hold promise for myocardial regeneration. For practical reasons, adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs) are attractive cells for clinical application in repairing damaged myocardium based on the following advantages … |
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| The Stem-Cell War |
Unlike embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells do have a record of healing. You wouldn't know it from the media … |
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