Gel Enables Severed Spinal Cord Fibers to Regrow

Works in mice, but human clinical trials could start in several years, study says THURSDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- A nano-engineered gel that inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the site of a spinal injury and enables severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate has been develop...

Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury

In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after injury.// The findings will be published in the July 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study has implications...

First Human Receives Cardiac Stem Cells in Clinical Trial to Heal Damage Caused By Heart Attacks

...rt stem cells from minimally-invasive biopsies and then multiplying the cells. Unlike bone marrow cells, heart stem cells are naturally programmed to regrow heart tissue, so they could prove more effective in healing the injury caused by heart attacks. "If successful, we hope the procedure could be ...

Equine Obesity is Associated with Significant Health Issues, Including Insulin Resistance and Laminitis

...ant nutrients in addition to controlled simple carbohydrates is both the safest and surest way to improve insulin resistance, control inflammation and regrow healthy hoof tissues." As the principal at Equine Nutritional Solutions (Ephrata, PA) and co-owner of the Equine Cushing's and Insulin Resistance...

Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury

...re are insufficient means for repair, according to neurosurgeons. In particular, surgeons need improved methods to coax nerve fibers known as axons to regrow across major nerve injuries to reconnect healthy targets, for instance muscle or skin. "We have created a three-dimensional neural network, a livi...

Compounds that trigger beta cell replication identified by JDRF funded researchers

...1 diabetes, as well as to show effects on human beta cell replication and function." JDRF's Regeneration research focuses on triggering the body to regrow the insulin-producing beta cells that have been killed off by type 1 diabetes. This is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of research JDRF fu...

Why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy

...hods. For most patients, this hormone deprivation therapy causes tumors to shrink, sometimes dramatically. However, it's never a curetumors eventually regrow into a stronger form, becoming resistant to this and other forms of treatment. Seeking the reason why this therapy eventually fails, Luo and his co...

Anti-angiogenic drugs impede chemotherapy-stimulated tumor recovery

...erapy, including impairing the ability of chemotherapy-responsive tumors to regrow after therapy," says author Dr. Yuval Shaked. Drs. Kerbel, Shaked, and coll...progenitors (CEPs) from the bone marrow compartment that helps the tumor to regrow blood vessels and thereby recover from treatment. The researchers built...

Bone marrow stem cells may help control inflammatory bowel disease

...ity, indicating suppression of the out-of-control immune reaction. "The intestine may be an ideal site for MSC therapy, given its rapid ability to regrow tissue and its extensive local supply of lymph nodes; and the route by which the cells were administered may have ensured a greater amount of engraftm...

Montreal researchers prove that insulin-producing cells can give rise to stem-like cells in-vitro

...onstrated INGAP's potential to induce new islet formation in the pancreas. Clinical trials with INGAP have already demonstrated that it is possible to regrow new functional insulin-producing cells in diabetic patients. "We know that the peptide works, but we are still lacking certain theoretical bases to...

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Is Your Hair Taking a Break?

...cMichael explained that dermatologists may use combination therapies off-label such as injectable steroids, topical steroids or minoxidil 5% to try to regrow hair in patches of bald spots. However, she cautioned that not all patients will experience hair regrowth even with treatment -- which could have a si...

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EpiLift Epikeratome

Description:...le vision impairment in the future. Because it does not involve cutting the cornea or creating a permanent flap, the EpiLift System allows the eye to regrow the connections with the epithelium, resulting in a safer procedure with a significantly lower risk of complications....
Company:Advanced Refractive Technologies (formerly VisiJet, Inc.)

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Mammals can be stimulated to regrow damaged inner retina nerve cells

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have reported for the first time that mammals can be stimulated to regrow inner nerve cells in their damaged retinas. Located in the back of the eye, the retina's role in vision is to convert light into nerve impulses to the brain. The findings o...

Newts which regrow their hearts

When a newt loses a limb, the limb regrows. What is more, a newt can also completely repair damage to its heart. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim have now started to decode the cellular mechanisms in this impressive ability to regenerate and have dis...

Ultrasound may help regrow teeth

A team of University of Alberta researchers has created technology to regrow teeth--the first time scientists have been able to reform human dental tissue. Using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS), Dr. Tarak El-Bialy from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Ts...

Stem cell breakthrough gives new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases

...muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The world-first procedure has been successfully used to regrow muscles in a mouse model, but it could be applied to all tissue-based illnesses in humans such as in the liver, pancreas or brain, the researchers say...

Moving new technologies from the lab to the marketplace

... improve their electrospinning technique. They have used it to build scaffolds for tissue engineering which are then combined with adult stem cells to regrow bone tissue. Michael Lacker, professor of biomedical engineering, received an award for his boundary method. The method generates new output algori...

Researchers at UH explore use of fat cells as heart attack therapy

...vely, then we can develop a procedure that doctors can use to inject the cells into a heart attack patient's heart and can either protect or even help regrow the heart muscles," Kleis said. One tool the research team is using is a tiny, state-of-the-art "bioreactor" that Kleis developed during the past f...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 24, 2008

...base for understanding bone loss in humans and even snaring the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine discovering how newts, starfish and other animals regrow amputated body parts. Those are the observations in a new overview of the field scheduled for the November 12 issue of ACS' Chemical Reviews, a m...

Small desert beetle found to engineer ecosystems

...rub, ensuring their offspring have a plentiful supply of food. The beetles chew girdles around the older stems of the shrub, which forces the plant to regrow new stems the following year. The new stems supply the beetle larvae with food, but the mesquite shrub takes more nutrients from the soil for its incr...

Moss is a super model for feeding the hungry

... plants had to adapt to withstand cold, heat and drought without roots or complex leaves. The ability of mosses to survive severe dehydration and then regrow when watered could be of enormous use in crops grown in drought-stricken areas of the developing world. Scientists from the University of Leeds, wi...

Upper Midwest forests are losing diversity, complexity, ISU study finds

...cessional development. Both types of change can have cascading effects through ecosystems; however, the long-term effects where forests are allowed to regrow are poorly understood." What is understood, says Schulte, are the stresses the forest changes are having on wildlife, including birds. Schulte has ...

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Worldwide Center for Adult Stem Cell Education LLC Changes Name to 'The Repair Stem Cell Institute LLC'

...ely removing the problems of immune rejection or abnormalities." He noted that repair stem cells exist in every human being's tissues, where they help regrow every possible cell in the body. "There are more different repair stem cells in the human body than any scientist can now count," he said. Scientists ...

Better collaboration urged to further Wisconsin biotech

...financed groundbreaking embryonic stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will begin human clinical trials next year of a method to regrow nerve cells in the spinal cord, DeVol said. Irene Hrusovsky, WBMDA president and president and CEO of Madison-based EraGen Biosciences, called DeV...

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Reproduction

...able to reproduce by budding . These organisms do not have different sexes, and they are capable of "splitting" themselves into two or more parts and regrow their body parts. Some 'asexual' species, like hydra and jellyfish , may also sexually reproduce. Most plants are capable of vegetative reproducti...

Reproduction

...able to reproduce by budding . These organisms do not have different sexes, and they are capable of "splitting" themselves into two or more parts and regrow their body parts. Some 'asexual' species, like hydra and jellyfish , may also sexually reproduce. Most plants are capable of vegetative reproducti...

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