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Saturday, 03 September 2011 00:34 |
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 Women who have Type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body does not produce the hormone insulin, might someday be successfully treated with a transplant of insulin-producing cells grown from cells in their uterus.
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:29 |
 Most cells rely on structural tethers to position chromosomes in preparation for cell division. Not so oocytes. Instead, a powerful intracellular stream pushes chromosomes far-off the center in preparation for the highly asymmetric cell division that completes oocyte maturation upon fertilization of the egg, report researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:28 |
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 He calls it innovative. Some scientists call it a big risk. In any case, the stem cell procedure that Gov. Rick Perry had last month was an unusual experiment to fix a common malady: a bad back.
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Sunday, 28 August 2011 00:30 |
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Scientists have for the first time generated stem cells from one of the most rapidly progressing forms of Parkinson's disease.
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:38 |
 There are numerous specialized growth factors that are responsible for cells of different tissues of our body to divide and differentiate when needed. These hormone-like factors bind to matching receptors on the surface of their target cells and thus give order for the cell to divide.
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 00:34 |
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 Stem cell research conducted at the University of Michigan is showing new promise in unlocking the biological secrets that make up bipolar disorder.
By taking stem cell lines from the skin of bipolar adults, scientists will be able to uncover new findings from the cell donors, who are participating in the study.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:49 |
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In cancer, tumors aren't uniform: they are more like complex societies, each with a unique balance of cancer cell types playing different roles. Understanding this "social structure" of tumors is critical for treatment decisions in the clinic because different cell types may be sensitive to different drugs.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:08 |
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 In a recent study, it has been revealed that cancer cells are part of a "decentralized society" instead of a hierarchical one, expected to be one of the major reasons to make cancer cells hard to destroy.
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Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:13 |
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New research suggests that blood stem cells can be involved in the generation of leukemia, even when the leukemia is caused by the abnormal proliferation of mature cells. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 16th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, may guide future strategies aimed at identifying therapeutic targets for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:40 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gained new insight into the delicate relationship between two proteins that, when out of balance, can prevent the normal development of stem cells in the heart and may also be important in some types of cancer.
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:36 |
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Heart attack, medically termed as myocardial infarction, is the deadliest heart disorder that may happen to a person. Heart attack occurs with a decline in the blood supply to the heart muscles, depriving it from oxygen. Unlike other cells and tissues in the body, the cardiac cells are not able to regenerate so once they are damaged, they cannot be remedied nor revived. As such, when a portion of the heart dies, it is dead and non-functional.
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:01 |
 Cancer scientists have long debated whether all cells within a tumour are equal or whether some cancer cells are more potent -- a question that has been highly investigated in experimental models in the last decade.
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:23 |
 Stem cell therapies promise to regenerate the infarcted heart through the replacement of dead cardiac cells and stimulation of the growth of new vessels.
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:43 |
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While highly potent embryonic stem cells are often the subject of ethical and safety controversy, adult-derived stem cells have other problems. As we age, our stem cells are less pliant and less able to transform into the stem cells that science needs to find breakthrough treatments for disease.
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 00:40 |
 A dog from Berrien County is the first animal in Southwest Michigan to receive stem cell therapy. Hanna, a nine year old labrador retriever from Niles, was injected with her own stem cells at Lakeshore Animal Health Care in Stevensville on Monday to treat arthritis. Doctor Philip Hecht was the vet to do the procedure, and he told WSJM that this new technique is becoming more common. With any luck, Hanna could be back to her old self with no pain at all within a couple of weeks:
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:39 |
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Regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB), today announced that the first minimally-invasive lumbar disc procedure had been successfully performed in the Phase 2 clinical trial of its proprietary adult Mesenchymal Precursor Cell (MPC) product for the treatment of low back pain and degenerative disc disease.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:22 |
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 BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced that four human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines: ESI-035, ESI-049, ESI-051 and ESI-053, developed by a BioTime subsidiary have been approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry.
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Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:14 |
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Mutations that are found in stem cells could be causing some breast cancers to develop and may be the reason the disease recurs. These abnormal cells are likely controlling cell functions in the tumor and, given they are not targeted by chemotherapy and radiation, they enable the disease to recur.
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Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:12 |
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Stem cell researchers at UCLA have discovered that three types of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are similar to each other, but are much more developmentally immature than previously thought when compared to those same cell types taken directly from human tissue.
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:39 |
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Like fine chefs, scientists are seemingly approaching a day when they will be able to make nearly any type of tissue from human embryonic stem cells. You need nerves or pancreas, bone or skin? With the right combination of growth factors, skill and patience, a laboratory tissue culture dish promises to yield therapeutic wonders.
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