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Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells

After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body. The new findings, reported online today (Jan. 30, 2005) in the journal Nature Biotechnology by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are important because they provide c...

Jump-starting T Cells In Skin Cancer

Advanced melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, can be successfully treated in some cases by vaccinating patients with tumor proteins. How these vaccines work and why they are only effective in some patients remains unclear. Pierre Coulie and colleagues now show, in two articles in the January 17 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that these vaccines work by increasing the num...

Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

A year ago, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers discovered that the spleen might be a source of adult stem cells that could regenerate the insulin-producing islets of thepancreas. In a follow-up to that unexpected finding, members of thesame team now report that these potential adult stem cells produce aprotein previously believed to be present only during the embryonicdevelopmen...

Researchers discover way to make cells in the eye sensitive to light

Researchers have discovered a way to makelight sensitive cells in the eye by switching on a single gene.According to research published online today in Nature, the team fromImperial College London and the University of Manchester, havediscovered that activating the melanopsin gene in the nerve cellscauses them to become light responsive, or photoreceptive. Usingmouse cells, the resea...

Priming embryonic stem cells to fulfill their promise

Bioengineering researchers at the Universityof California, San Diego have invented a process to help turn embryonicstem cells into the types of specialized cells being sought as possibletreatments for dozens of human diseases and health conditions. SangeetaBhatia and Shu Chien, UCSD bioengineering professors, and ChristopherJ. Flaim, a bioengineering graduate student, described the cell-cult...

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pET GST Fusion System 41 plus Competent Cells from Novagen

Description:Schistosomal glutathione-S-transferase (GST) is commonly used as a fusion partner when expressing proteins in E. coli (1). The GSTTag sequence has been reported to enhance the production and in some cases the solubility of its fusion partners. When expressed in a soluble, properly folded form, GSTTag fusion proteins can be purified with immobilized glutathione. Gentle elution is achieved with...
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Mitochondria Isolation Kit for Tissue and Cultured Cells from BioChain

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An Epitope Tagging Vector for Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells

Stratagene The pCMV-Tag1 vector is an epitope tagging vector designed for geneexpression in mammalian cells. A target gene inserted into the pCMV-Tag1 vectorca...

Versatile Vectors for Ponasterone A- Inducible Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells

Stratagene mammalian expressionsystem allows tightc...

Cell Proliferation Kit Outperforms the Competition in the Range of Cells Typically Counted

Quantitating cell number is more accurate using the Quantos cellproliferation assay kit Genetic Applications LLC cell proliferation assay kitprovides a simple, reproducible method to assess the number of cells present invarious tissue culture dish formats. In this st...

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Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

Livers can be regenerated using stem cells from blood -- an important discovery that means patients may be able to grow their own liver transplants using bone marrow. This adds to a growing body of evidence that stem cells, known as "master cells" because they can produce a variety of different kinds of cells, might one day be manipulated to create custom-grown organ transplants....

White Cells Count Can Predict Heart Attack Death Risk

A simple blood test can give clue if the heart attack patients should get an immediate procedures to open clogged vessels and restore blood flow to their hearts. Cleveland Clinic cardiologist, Dr. Deepak Bhatt analyzed medical records of more than 12,000 heart disease patients and found that patients whose white blood cell count is in what is considered a "high normal range" have a mu...

Action of nerve cells

For proper functioning of the brain in humans and animals, the nerve cells must communicate with the neurons by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters. In a new study, biologists from Utah showed how a single protein plays an importnat role in preparing the nerve cells to send these chemical signals. The experimented animals were paralyzed- unable to move, eat or// eli...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

An enzyme that affects the spread of cancer cells could provide a new target for therapy, say researchers in the US. Cancer cells spread through the body by hanging on to carbohydrate molecules on other, normal cells, and then letting go and moving on to the next cell. The composition of carbohydrates on the cells affects the balance between hanging on to neighbouring cells and letting go.// <...

Hydroxyurea derivatives kill colon cancer cells

A new class of drugs based on a widely used anticancer drug, hydroxyurea, shows potent colon cancer-killing effects in the laboratory and in mice, according to researchers. The new compounds seem to be very interesting for the treatment of these tumors. // Previous drugs derived from hydroxyurea were extremely active in blocking the same cell targets as hydroxyurea, but had serious si...

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SOC Kit For Bacterial Cells

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Beike Biotechnology Study Suggests Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

Adult stem cells cultivated from patients' own blood canpotentially improve the quality of life for patients whose lowerextremities are affected by peripheral vascular disease, accordingto a study in China. SHENZHEN, China, July 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- BeikeBiotechnology Co., Ltd. (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.beikebiotech.com/">http://www.beikebiotech.com )today announced tha...

Fat Kills Cancer: Turning Stem Cells from Fat Tissue into Personalized, Cancer-Targeted Therapeutics

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...

Clinical Trial Suggests Bone Marrow Stem Cells Are Useful for Spinal Cord Injury; PrimeCell Therapeutics Provided Pre-Clinical Study

SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - PrimeCell(TM)Therapeutics LLC (http://www.primecelltherapeutics.com) todayannounced that it provided research support and pre-clinicalstudies for a clinical trial to assess the safety, feasibility andefficacy of implanting autologous bone marrow stem cells intospinal cord injury (SCI) patients. Dr. Luis Geffner presented a preliminary rep...

In Vitro and In Vivo Data Show Alfacell's Onocanse is Active Against Naive and Chemoresistant Neuroblastoma Cells

Pre-Clinical Results Demonstrate Potential of ONCONASE forTreatment of Neuroblastoma BLOOMFIELD, N.J., June 27, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Alfacell Corporation today announced that new data show ONCONASE,the company's lead drug candidate, is active against naive andchemoresistant neuroblastoma cells. The pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo data published in CancerLetters (2007; Vo...

Bio-Matrix Scientific's Dr. O'Neill Sees University of Pittsburgh's Published Study on Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue as Supporting Near Term Benefits of Banking Adipose (Fat) Derived Stem Cells

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - The University ofPittsburgh School of Health Sciences issued the following study andpress release, "Scientists Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells fromHuman Fat Tissue," June 15, 2007, Science Daily: "Researchers atthe University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfullyisolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, oradipose...

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