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Important new step toward producing stem cells for human treatment

Important new step toward producing stem cells for human treatment

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created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists has taken an important step toward producing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that are safe to transplant into patients to treat ...





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No change in brain tumor incidence during a time when cell phone usage increased

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Ca ...


Arsenic biomethylation required for oxidative DNA damage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biomethylation of arsenic compounds appears to cause oxidative DNA damage and to increase their carcinogenicity, according to a new study published online November 23 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


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 ...


New ethical questions are being raised in stem cell research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A groundbreaking discovery two years ago that turned ordinary skin cells back into an embryonic or "pluripotent" state was hailed as the solution to the controversial ethical question that has plagued stem-cell science for ...


Screening method able to identify newborns with blood disorder that affects immune system

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The testing of DNA from a statewide blood screening program for newborns in Wisconsin was able to identify infants with T-cell lymphopenia, a blood disorder that affects the child's immune system, a disease in which early ...


Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute ...


Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT cancer biologists have identified a subpopulation of cells that can give rise to pancreatic cancer. They also found that tumors can form in other, more mature pancreatic cell types, but ...


Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system

Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts -- called an ion channel -- must open in the surface of each cell in these organs ...


Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...



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