stem 1 10

Tag: "stem" at medical news

Sanitation Emerges as the Winner

...ity felt that the discovery of DNA and research in stem cells hold a key to understand a lot of diseases. JYT...

Big Brother to the Rescue

...l be put on drugs to increase the concentration of stem cells released into his or her blood. The donor’s blood will then be drained and stem cells removed, with the filtered blood returning to the donor, simultaneously. The guest stem cell...

Stem Cell Marker Identified in Head and Neck Cancer

...rowth. The finding is the first evidence of cancer stem cells in head and neck tumors.// Cancer stem cells are the small number of cancer cells that replicate to drive tumor growth. Researchers believe...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...hly aggressive cancer with similarities to mammary stem cells, the regenerative cells believed to be the s...estin is a long filamentous protein found in adult stem cells in the central nervous system. While scientists do not know its exact function, the protein is...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...hly aggressive cancer with similarities to mammary stem cells, the regenerative cells believed to be the s...estin is a long filamentous protein found in adult stem cells in the central nervous system. While scientists do not know its exact function, the protein is...

Pumps Someday May Allow Patients to Recover Their Own Hearts

...ploring whether the devices could be combined with stem cell transplants or gene therapy. And there is still a lot to learn about the heart function itself. “We understand the damage that occurs to the heart during and after a heart attack. But with other causes of damage, such as chemotherapy and some ...

New Source of Stem Cells Discovered

... cheer to those who raise ethical concerns against stem cell research//. Stem cells are cells capable o...nt damage of cells, tissues or organs. Till now stem cells have been harvested from created human embryos, which are then destroyed after use; a process ...

Is Stem Cell Research Likely to Be Stymied?

...an imminent government directive that seeks to ban stem cell research that utilizes animal eggs//. This mo...rocedures. This is amid numerous applications from stem cell experts for licenses to allow the creation of human stem cells from animal cells. This is espec...

Tree Bark Compound Could Prevent Malaria

...ant and animal species. Tazopsine comes from the stem bark of the plant Strychnopsis thouarsii. It is the sole ingredient in a traditional tea used as treatment for malaria infection. Researcher Carraz M and colleagues found that N-cyclopentyl-tazopsine, a less-toxic compound derived from the Tazopsi...

New Gadget to Treat Insomnia, Stress

... that regulate stress, which extend from the brain stem throughout the body, we are able to affect many aspects of stress," says Michael Wood, chief science officer of Helicor. The device, about the size of a packet of cigarettes, has a pulse sensor and a display and works by helping people to breathe ...

Filling a Niche -- Role of Rb in Mammalian Stem Cells

...is required for the maintenance of the trophoblast stem cell population, which is essential for forming the placenta. Specific loss of Rb in trophoblast stem cells results in an overexpansion of trophoblast cells, aberrant placental formation, and embryonic ...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

...dy have a given function or by activating resident stem cells.” Developmental biologists know that a pa... be reproduced. These streams of signals also tell stem cells in adult organisms what functions to undertake. Once tissue formation starts, something has to...

MIT Creates 3-D Scaffold for Growing Stem Cells

... were able to grow a healthy colony of adult mouse stem cells on the three-dimensional scaffold without th...tive motifs, the scaffold can be fashioned to coax stem cells to behave in certain desirable ways-such as differentiating into needed body tissues or migrat...

Stem Cells as Cancer Therapy

It is widely hoped that neural stem cells will eventually be useful for replacing nerv...erosis. But there may also be another use for such stem cells--delivering anti-cancer drugs to cancer cells. A Perspective article in PLoS Medic ine, by Pr...

Researchers Find Stem-cell Therapy Effective in Targeting Metastatic Cancer

...e body more effectively. They used modified neural stem cells to activate and concentrate chemotherapeutic...the tendency for invasive tumors to attract neural stem cells. The researchers injected modified neural stem/progenitor cells into immunosuppressed mice tha...

Military College to Set Up Stem Cell Research Centre

Asia's biggest state-of-the-art stem cell research centre is being planned at the Pune-...atment replacing drug therapy and surgery. Through stem cell treatment, heart diseases, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, eye and...

Run Amok Enzyme Causes Same Problems in Both Humans and Fruit Flies

...des a new model for understanding the link between stem cell biology and cancer, according to researchers....bility of Drosophila neuroblasts, a type of neural stem cell, to maintain their stem cell character without forming tumors. Reporting in the Dec. 20 issue...

Researchers Use Stem Cells to Regenerate Parts of Teeth

...20 in the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE. Utilizing stem cells harvested from the extracted wisdom teeth of...n function and strength. The technique relies on stem cells harvested from the root apical papilla, which is responsible for the development of a tooth's ...

Breast Cancer Stem Cells Appear Resistant to Radiation Therapy

Breast cancer stem cells, seem to be obstinate, as scientists have di... radiation could even increase the growth of these stem cells, warn researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, who are the first to have su...

Stem Cell Activity Deciphered in the Aging Brain

...tes current ideas on how long crucial "progenitor" stem cells persist in the aging brain. The finding al...ain drain was due to a decreasing supply of neural stem cells in the aging hippocampus, said lead study investigator Bharathi Hattiangady, Ph.D., research a...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10