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Primitive Stem Cells Point to New Bone Grafts for Stubborn-To-Heal Fractures

June 17, 2020
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College Station, TX — Although most broken bones can be mended with a firm cast and a generous measure of tender loving care, more complicated fractures require treatments like bone grafting. Researchers...

Magnetic Guidance Improves Stem Cells’ Ability to Treat Occupational Lung Disease

June 16, 2020
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Durham, NC — Results of a study released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine(SCTM) may point the way to a cure for a serious lung disease called silicosis that affects millions of workers worldwide....

Critical Window for Re-Infection With HIV After Stem Cell Transplantation

May 15, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Some people with HIV need to undergo an allogeneic stem cell transplantation in order to treat different types of blood cancer. Most of the patient’s immune cells are eliminated...

Stem Cells Shown to Delay Their Own Death to Aid Healing

May 11, 2020
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Ithaca, NY — Already known for their shape-shifting abilities, stem cells can now add “death-defying” to their list of remarkable qualities. A new study shows how stem cells –...

‘Primitive’ Stem Cells Shown to Regenerate Blood Vessels in Eye

March 10, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have successfully turned back the biological hands of time, coaxing adult human cells in the laboratory to revert to a primitive state, and...

Computer Simulations Visualize How DNA is Recognized to Convert Cells into Stem Cells

February 18, 2020
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Swansea, Wales — Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW – The Netherlands) and the Max Planck Institute in Münster (Germany) have revealed how an essential protein helps to activate genomic...

Research Could Be Step Toward Lab-Grown Eggs and Sperm to Treat Infertility

February 7, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — A new study on how and when the precursors to eggs and sperm are formed during development could help pave the way for generating egg and sperm cells in the lab to treat infertility....

Kidney Stem Cells can be Isolated from Urine

February 6, 2020
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Düsseldorf, Germany — Researchers from the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (ISRM) at the medical faculty of Heinrich Heine University-Duesseldorf under the directorship of...

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 Link Rapid Brain Growth in Autism to DNA Damage

February 3, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a unique pattern of DNA damage that arises in brain cells derived from individuals with a macrocephalic form of autism spectrum disorder...

Programmable Nests for Cells

January 20, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Using DNA, smallest silica particles, and carbon nanotubes, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed novel programmable materials. These nanocomposites...

Rejuvenating The Brain

January 13, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — We all will experience it at some point, unfortunately: The older we get the more our brains will find it difficult to learn and remember new things. What the reasons underlying...

Researchers Create Accurate Model of Organ Scarring Using Stem Cells in a Lab

December 11, 2019
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Los Angeles, CA — Every organ in the body is capable, to some extent, of repairing itself after an injury. As part of this process, scar tissue forms and then recedes to make room for normal tissue...

Researchers Discover How Cells Know Their Future and Forget Their Past

November 7, 2019
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Copenhagen, Denmark — Stem cells all share the potential of developing into any specific cell in the body. Many researchers are therefore trying to answer the fundamental questions of what determines...

New Molecule Reduces Aggressiveness of Pediatric Cancer

November 7, 2019
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São Paulo, Brazil — In Brazil, scientists affiliated with the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center (HUG-CELL) at the University of São Paulo (USP) have identified a molecule capable of reducing...

Tapeworms Need to Keep Their Head to Regenerate

September 24, 2019
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Madison, WI — Scientists have identified the stem cells that allow tapeworms to regenerate and found that their location in proximity to the head is essential, according to a new study in eLife. These...

Signal Blocks Stem Cell Division in Geriatric Brain

August 29, 2019
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Basel, Switzerland — Scientists from Basel have investigated the activity of stem cells in the brain of mice and discovered a key mechanism that controls cell proliferation. According to the researchers,...

Study Links Certain Metabolites to Stem Cell Function in Intestine

August 22, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — MIT biologists have discovered an unexpected effect of a ketogenic, or fat-rich, diet: They showed that high levels of ketone bodies, molecules produced by the breakdown of fat, help...

Mini Kidneys Grown from Stem Cells Give New Insights into Kidney Disease and Therapies

August 21, 2019
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Singapore — An international team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has grown ‘miniature kidneys’ in the laboratory that could be used to...

Tweaked CRISPR in Neurons Gives Scientists New Power to Probe Brain Diseases

August 16, 2019
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San Francisco, CA — A team of scientists at UC San Francisco and the National Institutes of Health have achieved another CRISPR first, one which may fundamentally alter the way scientists study brain...

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