U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
Scientists have a pretty good handle on how to teach human cells to do tricks in a laboratory---things like getting soft cells from the mouth's lining to form bone. But in the real world, accomplishing such feats is more complex. Regenerating the jaw bone of a person undergoing radiation therapy for cancer means managing the constant bacteria bath of a human mouth as well as compensating...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
Researchers have created a way to transform the dead bone of a transplanted skeletal graft into living tissue in an experiment involving mice. The advance, which uses gene therapy to stimulate the body into treating the foreign splint as living bone, is a promising development for the thousands of cancer and trauma patients each year who suffer with fragile and failing bone grafts. The findings w...NC State scientist finds soft tissue in T. rex bones
Conventional wisdom among paleontologists states that when dinosaurs died and became fossilized, soft tissues didn't preserve ?the bones were essentially transformed into "rocks" through a gradual replacement of all organic material by minerals. New research by a North Carolina State University paleontologist, however, could literally turn that theory inside out. Dr. Mary Schweitzer, assis...Stem Cell Research Shows Potential for Replacing Tissue Damaged in Heart Attacks
A Medical College of Wisconsin research team, led by John W. Lough, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy has found that embryonic stem cells (ES cells) in animals can be cultivated to form new tissue, which eventually may help doctors learn how to replace tissue damaged as a result of a heart attack. The potential for ES cells to replace damaged or diseased cells in...Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue
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If a blood vessel in blocked the related tissue experiences ischemia, a state of low oxygen supply that slowly kills the tissue. They are referred as Ichemia / Reperfusion (IR) injury occurs during heart attacks. Understanding Ischemia / Reperfusion leads to the development of new drugs to save the damaged tissue and treat heart attack. During Ischemia / Reperfusion, Early growth respons...Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, made a new study which showed that an odd medical approach may help patients after head and neck surgery. Ann Arbor say leeches are an effective addition when trying to salvage tissue transfers.Patients who have surgery// to remove cancer in and around the head and neck often need to have tissue transfers performed. Doctors say about 15 perc...Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues
Two new studies, though small, have boosted confidence in a method used to repair cardiac tissues damaged by a heart attack. Researchers have found that stem cells derived from bone marrow which is much less controversial than embryo cells// helps patients who have had a heart attack and had undergone conventional bypass therapy. Doctors in eastern Germany found that when patients who...Free Tissue Transfer Effective in Treating Massive Skin Cancers
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PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007 ? Researchers in Slovakia havebeen able to derive mesenchymal stem cells from human adipose, orfat, tissue and engineer them into “suicide genes” that seek out and destroy tumors like tiny homing missiles. This gene therapy approach is a novel way to attack smalltumor metastases that evade current detection techniques andtreatments, the researchers...Schepens Scientists Identify Key to Integrating Transplanted Nerve Cells Into Injured Tissue
Discovery promises to make retina, spinal cord and other centralnervous system transplants possible BOSTON, April 26, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at theSchepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard MedicalSchool, have identified a key mechanism for successfullytransplanting tissue into the adult central nervous system. Thestudy found that a molecule known as MMP-2 (which is...