News tagged with body tissue
Going out on a limb: 'Scaffold' to regenerate lost or damaged bones and tissues
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Mother Nature has provided the lizard with a unique ability to regrow body tissue that is damaged or torn ― if its tail is pulled off, it grows right back. She has not been quite so generous with human ...
Autoimmune response can induce pancreatic tumor rejection
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Immune responses are capable of killing tumors before they can be directed toward normal body tissue, according to new scientific findings published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Resear ...
White tea could keep you healthy and looking young
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Next time you’re making a cuppa, new research shows it might be wise to opt for a white tea if you want to reduce your risk of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis or even just age-associated wrinkles. Researchers ...
Playing it safe
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Kinarm Ko and Hans Schöler's team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have succeeded for the first time in culturing a clearly defined cell type from the testis of adult mice and ...
Researcher seeks to turn stem cells into blood vessels
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A Johns Hopkins engineer is trying to coax human stem cells to turn into networks of new blood vessels that could someday be used to replace damaged tissue in people with heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.
DNA component can stimulate and suppress the immune response
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A component of DNA that can both stimulate and suppress the immune system, depending on the dosage, may hold hope for treating cancer and infection, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
