Early-stage sperm cells created from human bone marrow
Human bone marrow has been used to create early-stage sperm cells fo...e experiment, Prof Nayernia and his team took bone marrow from male volunteers and isolated the mesenchymal stem cells. These cells have previously been foun...Cancer-killing invention also harvests stem cells
...sts them for later use in tissue engineering, bone marrow transplants, and other applications that treat hum... to 2001, one of his labmates discovered that bone marrow stem cells stick to adhesive proteins called selectins more strongly than other cells -- including b...Scientists learn the origin of rogue B cells
...ls called B cells. B cells are formed in the bone marrow and produce antibodies. Antibodies are generated from the cutting and splicing of immunoglobulin genes early in B-cell development, and have the potential to develop strong and highly specific affinity for different pathogens. When an infectious path...Type of stem cell found to reside in transplanted lungs
...ed cells are different from MSCs derived from bone marrow in the expression of various genes, which makes us believe that they are specific to the organ they are isolated from." The study appears online March 8 in advance of publication in the April print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. ...Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma
...rus against multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow that currently has no cure. This is the third of a series of molecular medicine studies in patients testing the potential of measles to kill cancer. “This is the beginning of a long but exciting process,?says Angela Dispenzieri, M.D., hematologist ...DNA-damage test could aid drug development
...r DNA damage in red blood cells formed in the bone marrow of mice. The precursors to red blood cells are han...r thousands of tests to be performed from the bone marrow of a single mouse, and potentially from human bone marrow. Joe Shuga, the graduate student in ch...Research shows cord blood comparable to matched bone marrow
...er blood cancer patients better outcomes than bone marrow transplants, according to an analysis of outcome d...tric leukemia patients who received unrelated bone marrow transplants with those who received umbilical cord transplants. While all bone marrow donors were ma...Enzyme delivered in smaller package protects cells from radiation damage
...blood and lymphatic cancers to wipe out their bone marrow cells prior to subsequent transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow stem cells or peripheral blood progenitor stem cells. However, there is increasing concern that such...