Study in this Week's Issue of Cell Finds Injected Growth Factor Spurs Heart Regeneration
Growth factor enhances heart regeneration, improves heart function without need for cardiac stem cells (Vocus) July 16, 2009 -- Injured heart tissue normally can't regrow, but researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have now laid the groundwork for regenerating hear...Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue Engineering . About 300,000 Americans suffer peripheral nerv...UCSF professor to receive IADR Pulp Biology and Regeneration Award
Alexandria, Va. The 2009 Pulp Biology and Regeneration Award is being presented to Dr. Pamela DenBesten, from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) will present the award at its 87th General Session & Exhibition in Miami,...2008 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize recognizes science paper on limb regeneration in newts
A United Kingdom research team's discovery of a new molecular cue that promotes limb regeneration in newts a finding that could help guide the field of regenerative medicine received the 2008 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The Assoc...Ellex Announces Six-Month Results on Retina Regeneration Therapy
ATLANTA, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellex Medical Lasers Limited (ASX: ELX), a global leader in the design and manufacture of ophthalmic laser and ultrasound systems, today announced the six-month clinical study results for the groundbreaking treatment Retina Regeneration Therapy (Ellex 2RT(TM)) a...Stem cell regeneration repairs congenital heart defect
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that stem cells can be used to regenerate heart tissue to treat dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital defect. Publication of the discovery was expedited by the editors of Stem Cells and appeared online in the "express" section of the...Sound Pharmaceuticals Receives Additional DoD Funding for Its Hearing Regeneration Product
SEATTLE, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sound Pharmaceuticals (SPI) has received an R&D contract award from the ONR for approximately $1.6 million to optimize its lead drug candidate for hearing regeneration. SPI has developed a proprietary technology for regenerating auditory sensory cells within th...George to receive Pulp Biology and Regeneration Award
Alexandria, Va. The 2008 Pulp Biology and Regeneration Award is being presented to Dr. Anne George from the University of Illinois, College of Dentistry in Chicago. The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) will present the award at its 86th General Session & Exhibition in Toronto,...Cartilage regeneration '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'
HOUSTON, June 4, 2008 -- Bioengineers at Rice University have discovered that intense pressure -- similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface -- stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly all of the properties of natural cartilage. The ...St. Francis Surgeon Uses Tissue Regeneration Technology to Rebuild Patients' Heart Structures
INDIANAPOLIS, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A surgeon at the St. Francis Heart Center is using a revolutionary technology that allows patients to rebuild their own cardiovascular tissue. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090708/DE43062LOGO-a ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.c...Stem Cell Regeneration Repairs Congenital Heart Defect
Potential therapy for inherited conditions ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that stem cells can be used to regenerate heart tissue to treat dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital defect. Publication of the discovery was expedited...International Team Locates Key Player in Muscle Regeneration
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new understanding of the role played by the protein cdk9-55 in muscle regeneration and differentiation may lead to novel therapies to rebuild muscle tissue damaged by disease, injury and aging, according to researchers at the Sbarro Institute ...Injection Reverses Heart-Attack Damage
...ildren's since 2007. When the team injected NRG1 into the peritoneal cavity of live mice after a heart attack, once daily for 12 weeks, heart regeneration was increased and pumping function (ejection fraction, assessed on echocardiograms) improved as compared with untreated controls. The NRG1-injected mi...UPCI Joins ExCell Research Study Using Stem Cells for Leukemia and Lymphoma Patients
...stem cell expansion technologies and therapeutic products. The company is developing a pipeline of products in stem cell transplantation and in tissue regeneration to effectively treat debilitating and often fatal illnesses such as cancer, hematological, autoimmune and ischemic diseases. Gamida Cell's therapeutic...ThermoGenesis Announces National Institute of Health Grant
... and generation." Engle said the Company's research is based upon the growing body of evidence which shows that the efficacy of stem cells for tissue regeneration and repair can be enhanced if the cells are presented to the body within bioengineered materials. The AXP is used for the processing of stem ce...Repliform® Tissue Regeneration Matrix
Description: The Repliform Tissue Regeneration Matrix is an acellular human dermal allograft that when surgically implanted is intended to function as a template, facilitating the body's fibroblasts to regenerate normal soft tissue rather than scar....Osteomesh Bioresorbable Implant for Craniofacial Surgery
Description:...t to any shape. The mesh offers a rigid yet flexible scaffold with sufficient mechanical strength that supports bone in-growth and it degrades as bone regeneration and remodeling takes place. Long term clinical trials showed significant bone regeneration, as the material is slowly resorbed by the body and replace...CellThera and WPI advance in regeneration study
WORCESTER, Mass. CellThera, a biotechnology company located in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park, has received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to extend its research program in tissue regeneration. ...International research team seeks to unravel flatworm regeneration
Planarian flatworms are only a few millimeters up to a few centimeters in length, live in freshwater and are the object of intense research, because they possess the extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue with the help of their stem cells (neoblasts) and even grow an entirely new worm out...Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration
Baltimore, MDScientists working at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, with colleagues, have overturned previous research that identified critical genes for making muscle stem cells. It turns out that the genes that make muscle stem cells in the embryo are surprisingly not needed ...Tulane receives grant to study limb regeneration
Could the salamander's natural ability to grow back severed appendages lead to a scientific breakthrough for humans who have lost limbs? With the help of a $6.25 million U.S. Department of Defense grant, Tulane University professor Ken Muneoka, the John L. and Mary Wright Ebaugh chair in scienc...Cholesterol-lowering drugs and the effect on muscle repair and regeneration
HILTON HEAD, SCStatins are powerful drugs that reduce "bad" cholesterol and thus cut the risk of a heart attack. While these medications offer tremendous benefits to millions, they can carry side effects for some. The most frequently reported consequence is fatigue, and about nine percent of patie...USC researchers identify mechanism that controls activation of stem cells during hair regeneration
Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2007 -- Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel cyclic signaling in the dermis that coordinates stem cell activity and regulates regeneration in large populations of hairs in animal models. The signaling switch involves bone morphoge...Scientists eye secrets of retinal regeneration
NEW YORK (Sept. 10, 2007) -- Peering at microscopic changes within the retina, scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, have discovered a key mechanism driving eye health and eye disease. Reporting in the cover article of a recent edition...Liver regeneration may be simpler than previously thought
The way the liver renews itself may be simpler than what scientists had been assuming. A new study, appearing in the April 13 issue of The Journal of Biological Chemistry, provides new information on the inner workings of cells from regenerating livers that could significantly affect the way physic...Key to zebrafish heart regeneration uncovered
When a portion of a zebrafish's heart is removed, the dynamic interplay between a mass of stem cells that forms in the wound and the protective cell layer that covers the wound spurs the regeneration of functional new heart tissue, Duke University Medical Center scientists have found. The scienti...New understanding of regeneration gained by Forsyth scientists
Forsyth Institute research with the flatworm, planaria, offers new clues for understanding restoration of body structures. Researchers at The Forsyth Institute have discovered how the worm's cells communicate to correctly repair and regenerate tissue. Forsyth scientists have found that gap-junctio...Independent Study Confirms Superior Properties of ZPC(TM) Enhanced Calcium Composite Bone Grafts
... bone growth. About the company: Biocomposites is a privately held, leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of synthetic, tissue regeneration products. Since 1997, the company has developed a broad range of products that addresses the clinical and economic needs of medical specialties in ort...Stem cells' 'suspended' state preserved by key step, scientists report
...and Biomedicine, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal) in the lab of senior author Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF. The scientists discovered the pivotal role of Chd1 by using the powerful technique of RNA interference, o...I Walk Because Program Gives Consumers a Voice
...hloride), a short-acting drug for the management of spasticity. The Company's pipeline includes a number of products in development for the treatment, regeneration and repair of the spinal cord and brain. About Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness Under Jim Joseph's leadership, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellnes...IonQuest System with PC Control and Supressor from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
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