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New Hydrogels Wither While Stem Cells Flourish for Tissue Repair

February 5, 2020
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College Station, TX — Baby diapers, contact lenses and gelatin dessert. While seemingly unrelated, these items have one thing in common — they’re made of highly absorbent substances called...

Scientists Identify Gene that Puts Brakes on Tissue Growth

January 23, 2020
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Evanston, IL — The planarian flatworm is a simple animal with a mighty and highly unusual ability: it can regenerate itself from nearly every imaginable injury, including decapitation. These tiny worms...

New Material for Regenerative Medicine Capable to Control Cell Immune Response

November 1, 2019
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Tomsk, Russia — Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with the University of Montana (USA) proposed a new promising material for regenerative medicine for recovery of damaged tissues and...

How Stem Cells Self-Organize in the Developing Embryo

January 18, 2019
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New York, NY — Embryonic development is a process of profound physical transformation, one that has challenged researchers for centuries. How do genes and molecules control forces and tissue stiffness...

New Hydrogel Matrix Delivers Healing Stem Cells to Injured Elderly Muscles

August 16, 2018
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Atlanta, GA – A car accident leaves an ageing patient with severe muscle injuries that won’t heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells from a donor might restore damaged tissue, but doctors...

Created Line of Spinal Cord Neural Stem Cells Shows Diverse Promise

August 7, 2018
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers report that they have successfully created spinal cord neural stem cells (NSCs) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) that differentiate into a diverse population of cells...

Researchers Predict Cell Conversion Factors

July 30, 2018
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Thanks to a newly developed computational method, Luxembourg researchers can accurately predict how one subpopulation of cells can be converted into another.

Researchers Predict Cell Conversion Factors

July 27, 2018
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Thanks to a newly developed computational method, Luxembourg researchers can accurately predict how one subpopulation of cells can be converted into another.

Stem Cells Restore Function in Primate Heart-Failure Study

July 3, 2018
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Seattle, WA — Researchers at UW Medicine in Seattle have successfully used human stem cells to restore heart function in monkeys with heart failure. The findings suggest that the technique will be effective...

Myelin Boosts Neuron Growth in Spinal Cord Injuries, Research Shows

May 24, 2018
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La Jolla, CA — Recovery after severe spinal cord injury is notoriously fraught, with permanent paralysis often the result. In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned to stem cell-based therapies...

Researchers Succeed in Cultivating Cartilage from Stem Cells

April 17, 2018
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Basel, Switzerland — Stable joint cartilage can be produced from adult stem cells originating from bone marrow. This is made possible by inducing specific molecular processes occurring during embryonic...

Newly Identified Stem Cells May Hold Key to Regenerative Therapies for Lung Disease

April 13, 2018
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Iowa City, IA — The human airway is a system of branching tubes that connects the nose and mouth with the lungs and allows us to inhale air, extract the vital oxygen, and exhale the waste product carbon...

‘Sleeping’ Stem Cells could Aid Brain Repair

April 5, 2018
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Cambridge, UK — Scientists have identified a new type of stem cell in the brain which they say has a high potential for repair following brain injury or disease.

Team Tests Stem Cell-Based Retinal Implant for Common Cause of Vision Loss

April 4, 2018
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Los Angeles, CA — Physicians and researchers at the USC Roski Eye Institute have collaborated with other California institutions to show that a first-in-kind stem cell-based retinal implant is feasible...

Researchers Uncover Differences in Neural Control for Arms and Legs

February 22, 2018
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La Jolla, CA — Legs and arms perform very different functions. Our legs are responsible primarily for repetitive locomotion, like walking and running.

Transforming Stem Cells into Muscle Fibre

February 21, 2018
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia — Australian biomedical engineers have successfully produced a 3D material that mimics nature to transform cells into muscle.

Stem-Cell Based Treatment Repairs Damaged Brain Tissue after Stroke

February 15, 2018
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Athens, GA – A team of researchers at the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center and ArunA Biomedical, a UGA startup company, have developed a new treatment for stroke that...

Heart Protein Could Improve Stem Cell Therapy After Heart Attack

February 13, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA – Researchers may have found a way to reduce ongoing heart damage that occurs long after a severe heart attack by improving the longevity of stem cells injected into the heart.

New Technique that Could Overcome Obstacle for Future Stem Cell Therapies Discovered

January 26, 2018
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Vancouver, BC, Canada —Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of stem cell therapy.

First-of-Its-Kind Gene Therapy Shown to Restore Vision to Patients with Inherited Retinal Disorder

November 10, 2017
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New Orleans, LA – Patients who had lost their sight to an inherited retinal disease could see well enough to navigate a maze after being treated with a new gene therapy, according to research...

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