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Study finds way to protect healthy cells from radiation damage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, may be hot on the heels of a Holy Grail of cancer therapy: They have found ...


High-sensitivity bone marrow aspiration technology enhances leukemia cell detection

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have created a viable technology to improve the detection of leukemia cells in bone marrow.


Study results promise faster recovery from life-threatening blood cell shortages

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a study published online today in the journal Blood. While the study was in mice, in the ...


Early, aggressive treatment recommended for critically ill patients with hematological malignancy

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of 7,689 admissions from 178 adult intensive care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has revealed the factors associated with a higher mortality rate in haematological malignancy. Researchers writing in ...


Early heart attack therapy with bone marrow extract improves cardiac function

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac function, decreasing the ...


Immune exhaustion driven by antigen in chronic viral infection

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A main reason why viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C persist despite a vigorous initial immune response is exhaustion. The T cells, or white blood cells, fighting a chronic infection eventually wear out.


A new method for bone-marrow-derived liver stem cells isolation and proliferation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Great interest has been aroused in the identification and isolation of liver stem cells from bone marrow cells. Several subsets of bone marrow cells have been found to have the potential to differentiate into hepatocytes, ...


Bone marrow transplant patients may benefit from new immune research

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bone marrow transplant (BMT) researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center in Milwaukee may have found a mechanism that could preserve the leukemia-killing effects of a transplant graft, while limiting the ...


Biomedical researchers create artificial human bone marrow in a test tube

Biology /

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.


Preventing Graft vs. Host Disease

Cancer drug shows promise against graft vs. host disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new University of Michigan study in mice suggests that a drug recently approved to fight cancer tumors is also able to reduce the effects of graft-versus-host disease, a common and sometimes fatal complication ...