News tagged with fetal cells
New blood test for Down syndrome
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women. If confirmed in ...
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Residual fetal cells in women may provide protection against breast cancer
Oct 01, 2007 |
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Fetal cells that persist in a woman’s body long after pregnancy – a common occurrence known in scientific circles as fetal microchimerism – in some cases may reduce the woman’s risk of breast cancer, according to researchers ...
New approach to sickle-cell disease shows promise in mice
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A new genetic approach to treating sickle cell disease is showing promising results in mice, report researchers from Children's Hospital Boston. By inactivating a gene they previously discovered to be important in the laboratory, ...
U-M team identifies gene that regulates blood-forming fetal stem cells
Jul 26, 2007 |
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In the rancorous public debate over federal research funding, stem cells are generally assigned to one of two categories: embryonic or adult. But that's a false dichotomy and an oversimplification. A new University of Michigan ...
Researchers report of a brain and spinal tumor following human fetal stem cell therapy
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A case report published in this week's issue of the open-access general medical journal, PLoS Medicine, describes a rare side effect of human fetal stem cell therapy. Ninette Amariglio and Gideon Rechavi from the Sheba Medica ...
Red grape skin extract could be new treatment for sickle cell disease patients
Oct 22, 2009 |
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An extract in red grape skin may be a new treatment for sickle cell disease, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Placenta-derived stem cells may help sufferers of lung diseases
Jul 27, 2009 |
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An Italian research team, publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:4), has found that stem cells derived from human placenta may ultimately play a role in the treatment of lung diseases, such as pulmon ...
Gene therapy corrects sickle cell disease in laboratory study
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Using a harmless virus to insert a corrective gene into mouse blood cells, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have alleviated sickle cell disease pathology. In their studies, the researchers found that the ...
Endogenous cannabinoids linked to fetal brain damage imposed by maternal cannabis use
May 24, 2007 |
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A critical step in brain development is governed by endogenous cannabinoids, ‘the brain’s own marijuana’. Studies conducted at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, with participation of scientists from Europe ...
Scientists uncover new mechanism regulating fetal growth and neonatal survival
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Dr. Sylvain Meloche, Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, and his colleagues have uncovered the critical role played by the protein ...
Zinc supplements during pregnancy may counteract damage from early alcohol exposure
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Animal research has shown that binge drinking - even just once - during early pregnancy can cause numerous problems for the fetus, including early postnatal death. Fetal zinc deficiency may explain some of the birth defects ...
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