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Enhanced stem cells promote tissue regeneration

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT engineers have boosted stem cells' ability to regenerate vascular tissue (such as blood vessels) by equipping them with genes that produce extra growth factors (naturally occurring compounds that stimulate tissue growth). ...


Bone formation from embryonic stem cells

Bone formation from embryonic stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jojanneke Jukes of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has succeeded in growing bone tissue with the help of embryonic stem cells for the first time.


Breast density associated with increased risk of cancer recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts. Published in the December 15, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer ...


Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...


Alternatively spliced tissue factor identified as promising new biomarker for aggressive cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recently discovered form of the protein that triggers blood clotting may play a key role in the molecular mechanisms leading to the growth of certain metastatic cancers, according to new research reported by an international ...


Research sheds new light on epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.


Researchers define barriers to successful heart cell transplants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a novel cell injection test-bed to evaluate the barriers to transplanted cell integration with cardiac tissue. The results provide insights into the ...


Researchers develop new lab-on-a-chip technique

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Toronto have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" technique that analyses tiny samples of blood and breast tissue to identify women at risk of breast cancer much more quickly than ever before.


Novel breast tissue feature may predict woman's cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that certain structural features within breast tissue can indicate a woman's individual cancer risk. The findings appear online today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


Lung tissue generated from human embryonic stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Belgium have successfully differentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESC) into major cell types of lung epithelial tissue using a convenient air-liquid interface. The technique, published in BioMed Central's ...


Vaccine against chlamydia not far away

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When a woman becomes infected with Chlamydia, the first white blood cells that arrive at the scene to fight the infection are not the most effective. This is shown by a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy. This discovery ...


Researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers have grown tumors in mice using cells from inflamed but noncancerous colon tissue taken from human patients, a finding that sheds new light on colon cancer ...


Loss of Tumor-Suppressor and DNA-Maintenance Proteins Causes Tissue Demise, Penn Study Finds

Loss of Tumor-Suppressor and DNA-Maintenance Proteins Causes Tissue Demise, Study Finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the October issue of Nature Genetics demonstrates that loss of the tumor-suppressor protein p53, coupled with elimination of the DNA-maintenance protein ATR, severely disrup ...


First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...


The book of life can now literally be written on paper

The book of life can now literally be written on paper

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells - and it's as cheap ...