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Posted by LG in Research, The Science on 18. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Stem Cell Pastes Show Promise In Bone Repair
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 – By Amy Ryan, Stem Cell Research News
Surgeons could one day routinely use strong, moldable, and injectable pastes embedded with stem cells to regenerate needed bone tissue to repair broken bones, fractures, genetic defects, even combat bone wounds, according to scientists in Maryland.
A University [...]
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An early laboratory success is taking University of Michigan researchers a step closer to parathyroid gland transplants that could one day prevent a currently untreatable form of bone loss associated with thyroid surgery.
The scientists were able to induce embryonic stem cells to differentiate into parathyroid cells that produced a hormone essential to maintaining bone density. [...]
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A new study reports that transplanted pigment-containing visual cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) successfully preserved structure and function of the specialized light-sensitive lining of the eye (known as the retina) in an animal model of retinal degeneration. The findings, published by Cell Press in the October 2nd issue of the journal Cell [...]
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Haifa scientists have adapted an innovative Japanese gene-implantation technique and succeeded in “turning back the clock” for human skin cells, reprogramming them into artificial embryonic stem cells and then switching them into heart cells in the lab.
PROF. LIOR Gepstein is head of a Haifa team that has found a way to apply Japanese stem cell [...]
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By Rob Waters
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Researchers fused two technologies, stem cells and gene therapy, to trigger the growth of new blood vessels as a treatment for mice with heart disease.
A biodegradable carrier called a polymer was engineered by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and ferried genes into stem cells. The genes [...]
Posted by LG in Ethics on 18. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Friday, October 16, 2009 – By Amy Ryan, Stem Cell Research News
Scientists in California have developed a more efficient method of creating stem cells from human adult tissue without the use of embryonic cells.
According to the scientists, the research makes great strides in addressing a major practical challenge in the development of stem cell-based medicine.
The [...]
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 – By Francis Summers, Stem Cell Research News
Brian Liau, left, and Nenad Buirsac
Bioengineers who were able to mimic in lab mice the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living “heart patch” to repair heart tissue damaged by disease.
In [...]
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During cell division, whether hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) will develop into new stem cells (self-renewal) or differentiate into other blood cells depends on a chemical process called DNA methylation. These were the findings of researchers at the laboratory of Dr. Frank Rosenbauer of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch in cooperation with [...]
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Pre-formed blood vessels in patches connect to rodents’ heart circulation
VIDEO: University of Washington researchers in the Chuck Murry lab at the UW Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative medicine engineered this heart repair patch from a mix of stem cells….
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University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue [...]
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GOLDEN, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vitro Diagnostics, Inc. (OTCBB: VODG), dba Vitro Biopharma, announced completion of a research report concerning its fluorescent stem cells, http://www.vitrobiopharma.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fluorescent-msc-10-3.pdf. This report revealed transfer of fluorescent to differentiated cells including chondrocytes, cells responsible for making cartilage. Fluorescent stem cells allow tracking of stem cells following transplantation and studies of stem cell homing or migration [...]
