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Team Creates Expanded Potential Stem Cells

October 12, 2017
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Hinxton, UK — Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have created Expanded Potential Stem Cells (EPSCs) in mice that have a greater potential for development than...

Research Shows Insulin is a Key Determinant of Embryonic Stem Cell Potency in Mammals

September 27, 2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark — New research conducted at the stem cell centre, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen shows that insulin is a key determinant of embryonic stem cell potency in mammals....

Research Suggests New Livestock Model for Stroke Could Speed Discovery

September 26, 2017
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Athens, GA — It is well-known in the medical field that the pig brain shares certain physiological and anatomical similarities with the human brain. So similar are the two that researchers at...

Research Unlocks Regenerative Potential of Cells in the Mouse Retina

August 29, 2017
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Bethesda, MD — Cells within an injured mouse eye can be coaxed into regenerating neurons and those new neurons appear to integrate themselves into the eye’s circuitry, new research shows.

Stem Cell Discovery Refreshes the Heart

August 7, 2017
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Whittier, CA — Some people are better than others at recovering from a wounded heart, according to a new USC Stem Cell study published in Nature Genetics.

Anti-Inflammatory Drug Found to Promote Stem Cell Survival and Wound Healing

July 20, 2017
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Scientists have found a new way to protect stem cells from harsh inflammation during wound repair.

Immune System Found to Control Eye Tissue Renewal in Animal Model

July 17, 2017
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Baltimore, MD – Discovery suggests that strategies to regulate immune system cell reactivity to injury and cell loss might one day unlock and boost human tissue and cellular regeneration.

Study Shows Tiny Cellular Antennae Key to Fat Formation in Muscle

July 13, 2017
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San Francisco, CA — Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for fat cells. This process quickens when we injure a muscle, and an extreme form of this process...

Scientists Discover Mechanism Behind Precise Spinal Cord Development

June 29, 2017
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London, UK — Scientists have uncovered how nerve cells in the spinal cord are organized in precise patterns during embryo development – a finding that could give insight into regenerative...

Team Creates Self-Renewing Hematopoietic Stem Cells for Transplantation

May 18, 2017
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New York, NY — Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered an innovative method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood cells from the readily available cells that line blood vessels....

Mouse Teeth Providing New Insights into Tissue Regeneration

April 28, 2017
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San Francisco, CA — Researchers hope to one day use stem cells to heal burns, patch damaged heart tissue, even grow kidneys and other transplantable organs from scratch.

New Study Overturns Seminal Research About the Developing Nervous System

April 24, 2017
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Los Angeles, CA — New research by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA overturns a long-standing paradigm about how axons —...

Researchers Identify Molecular Alert for Stem Cells to Accelerate Healing

April 19, 2017
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Los Angeles, CA – A new study in Cell Reports suggests a way that mere mortals can potentially speed their recovery from a wide variety of injuries.

Crystal Growth, Earth Science and Tech Demo Research Launching to International Space Station

February 16, 2017
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Washington, DC – The tenth SpaceX cargo resupply launch to the International Space Station, targeted for launch on February 18, will deliver investigations that study human health, Earth science...

Embryonic Stem Cells Reprogrammed to Expand their Potential Cell Fates

January 16, 2017
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Berkeley, CA — Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to reprogram mouse embryonic stem cells so that they exhibit developmental characteristics resembling those...

Stem Cells Used to Regenerate External Layer of Human Heart

January 12, 2017
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University Park, PA — A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart — epicardium cells — according to a multidisciplinary...

Natural Process for Scar-Free Wound Healing Described

January 6, 2017
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Irvine, CA – Scars are often the unwanted and permanent result of wound healing, but University of California, Irvine and University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a natural...

For Stem Cells to Be Healthy, Telomere Length Has to Be Just Right, Scientists Find

December 7, 2016
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La Jolla, CA — Ever since researchers connected the shortening of telomeres–the protective structures on the ends of chromosomes–to ageing and disease, the race has been on to understand...

Our Closest Invertebrate Relatives Regrow Body Parts, Raising Hopes of Regeneration in Humans

November 29, 2016
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Seattle, WA — What if humans could regrow an amputated arm or leg, or completely restore nervous system function after a spinal cord injury?

New iPS-Cell Model System Helps Develop Treatments for Spinocerebellar Ataxia

November 11, 2016
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Japan — Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology have succeeded in creating a new model system that can be used to develop drug therapies for genetic disorders like spinocerebellar...

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