News tagged with heart cells
New steps forward in cell reprogramming
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have substantially improved the odds of successfully reprogramming differentiated cells into induced ...
Protein that triggers plant cell division
Jun 11, 2009 |
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From the valves in a human heart to the quills on a porcupine to the petals on a summer lily, the living world is as varied as it is vast. For this to be possible, the cells that make up these living things must be just as ...
Scientists identify key factors in heart cell creation
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have identified for the first time key genetic factors that drive the process of generating new heart cells. The discovery, reported in the current ...
Benefit of grapes may be more than skin deep
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Can a grape-enriched diet prevent the downhill sequence of heart failure after years of high blood pressure?
Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, ...
Healing heart attack victims, one cell at a time
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By using the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960, researchers have determined that cells in the human heart develop into adulthood.
Researchers isolate and purify mouse heart stem cells
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering Cornell and University of Bonn study has isolated and purified mouse heart stem cells, settling a debate over whether such cells exist.
Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.
Study provides insight on a common heart rhythm disorder
Oct 07, 2008 |
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University of Iowa researchers and colleagues in France have identified a gene variant that causes a potentially fatal human heart rhythm disorder called sinus node disease. Also known as "sick sinus syndrome," the disease ...
Scientists investigate estrogen, heart disease connection in women
May 04, 2009 |
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A new study on old rats by a Penn State researcher will shed light on the connection between estrogen deficiency, heart disease and aging in women.
Process for expansion and division of heart cells identified
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco have unraveled a complex signaling process that reveals how different types of cells interact to create ...
How do you mend a broken heart? Maybe someday with stem cells made from your skin (Video)
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A little more than a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists showed they could turn skin cells back into stem cells, they have pulsating proof that these "induced" stem cells can indeed form ...
Embryonic Heart Cells Thrive Only in an Environment That's Just Right
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cellular engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that cardiomyocytes, the specialized cells that form the heart muscle, thrive when cultured in an environment that mimics their own elastic ...
Stem cells drug testing predicted to boom under Obama
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Embryonic stem cells could provide a new way of testing drugs for dangerous side effects, according to a leading British researcher.
Heart regenerates after infarction -- first trials with mice
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Up until today scientists assumed that the adult heart is unable to regenerate. Now, researchers and cardiologists from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin ...
