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Researchers Make Counterintuitive Discoveries About Immune-Like Characteristics of Cells

October 19, 2020
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Nashville, TN — Vanderbilt University researchers have reported the counterintuitive discovery that certain chemotherapeutic agents used to treat tumours can have the opposite effect of tissue overgrowth...

Study Indicates that Hair Loss might be Prevented by Regulating Stem Cell Metabolism

October 15, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — Hair follicle stem cells, which promote hair growth, can prolong their life by switching their metabolic state. In experiments conducted with mice, a research group active in Helsinki...

Computational Approach to Optimise Culture Conditions Required for Cell Therapy

October 13, 2020
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Singapore / Melbourne, Australia — Cellular therapy is a powerful strategy to produce patient-specific, personalised cells to treat many diseases, including heart disease and neurological disorders....

Damaged Muscles Don’t Just Die, They Regenerate Themselves

October 13, 2020
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Kumamoto, Japan — While building a muscle damage model in a cultured system, a research collaboration between Kumamoto University and Nagasaki University in Japan has found that components leaking...

When It Comes to Arthritic Bone Spurs, Stem Cells Hurt Instead of Heal

October 12, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — The same stem cells that heal broken bones can also generate arthritic bone spurs called osteophytes, according to a new study in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. “Although...

Terahertz Zaps Alter Gene Activity in Stem Cells

October 12, 2020
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Kyoto, Japan — Terahertz light pulses change gene expression in stem cells, report researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Tokai University...

Coupling Antibiotics with Stem Cells to Fight Off Bone Infections

October 5, 2020
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Kanazawa, Japan — Bone infections caused by implants are difficult to treat and usually require a prolonged course of antibiotic treatment. In a new study, researchers from Kanazawa University discovered...

Fine-Tuning Stem Cell Metabolism Prevents Hair Loss

September 29, 2020
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Cologne, Germany — A team of researchers from Cologne and Helsinki has discovered a mechanism that prevents hair loss: hair follicle stem cells, essential for hair to regrow, can prolong their life...

Cell Therapy Designed to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease

September 29, 2020
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Leioa, Spain — The results obtained are very encouraging and the researchers hope to be able to make headway in a multifunctional cell therapy system to treat inflammatory bowel disease. In fact, they...

Stem Cells can Repair Parkinson’s-Damaged Circuits in Mouse Brains

September 28, 2020
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Madison, WI — The mature brain is infamously bad at repairing itself following damage like that caused by trauma or strokes, or from degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s. Stem cells, which...

‘Cellular Compass’ Guides Stem Cell Division in Plants

September 21, 2020
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Stanford, CA — The stem cells tasked with creating and maintaining biological tissues have a difficult job. They have to precisely divide to form new specialized cells, which are destined to different...

Feeding Off Fusion or the Immortalization of Tumour cells

September 14, 2020
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Wien, Austria — Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death – in 2018 alone, it claimed approximately 9.6 million lives, or one in six deaths. The development of cancer is incredibly...

New Insight into Mammalian Stem Cell Evolution

September 8, 2020
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Kyoto, Japan — The genes regulating pluripotent stem cells in mammals are surprisingly similar across 48 species, Kyoto University researchers report in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution. The...

Coaxing Single Stem Cells Into Specialized Cells

September 6, 2020
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Chicago, IL — Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have developed a unique method for precisely controlling the deposition of hydrogel, which is made of water-soluble polymers commonly...

New Molecular Guardian of Intestinal Stem Cells

August 24, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Intestinal stem cells keep a fine balance between two potential forms: remaining as stem cells, or developing into intestinal epithelial cells. In a new study, researchers from Tokyo...

Heart Attack Damage Reduced by Shielded Stem Cells

August 19, 2020
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Houston, TX — Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have shown that shielding stem cells with a novel biomaterial improves the cells’ ability to...

DNA Damage Triggers Reprogramming into Stem Cells

August 18, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A joint research team from the National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB) in Japan, Huazhong Agricultural University in China, and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic...

Gene Targeting Helps Overcome the Resistance of Brain Cancer to Therapy

August 18, 2020
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Montreal, CA — New insight into a gene that controls energy production in cancer stem cells could help in the search for a more effective treatment for glioblastoma. A McGill-led study published in Nature...

Becoming Nerve Cell: Timing is of the Essence

August 17, 2020
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Ghent, Belgium — Mitochondria are small organelles that provide the energy critical for each cell in our body, in particular in the high fuel-consuming brain. In this week’s edition of Science,...

Implanted Neural Stem Cell Grafts Show Functionality in Spinal Cord Injuries

August 6, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Using stem cells to restore lost functions due to spinal cord injury (SCI) has long been an ambition of scientists and doctors. Nearly 18,000 people in the United States suffer SCIs...

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