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Human Tissue Act may have helped research, says study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fears that medical research using tissue such as blood or material from biopsies would be obstructed by the Human Tissue Act 2004 may have been unfounded, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.


NMR on a microscale

NMR on a microscale

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technique well known from its use in MRI scanning - actually based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) - can now also be applied to extremely small samples thanks to an ingenious combination ...


Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics

Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics (Update)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are ...


Cell transplants may cure deafness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...





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Enhanced stem cells promote tissue regeneration

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT engineers have boosted stem cells' ability to regenerate vascular tissue (such as blood vessels) by equipping them with genes that produce extra growth factors (naturally occurring compounds that stimulate tissue growth). ...


Lung tissue generated from human embryonic stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Belgium have successfully differentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESC) into major cell types of lung epithelial tissue using a convenient air-liquid interface. The technique, published in BioMed Central's ...


Scientists take early steps toward mapping epigenetic variability

Scientists take early steps toward mapping epigenetic variability

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Brown University scientists have taken the first steps toward mapping epigenetic variability in cells and tissues. Mapping the human epigenome, similar to the human genome project in the 1990s, could someday ...


Researcher regenerates brain tissue in traumatic injuries

Researcher regenerates brain tissue in traumatic injuries

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

An injectable biomaterial gel may help brain tissue grow at the site of a traumatic brain injury, according to findings by a Clemson University bioengineer.


Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...


Alternatively spliced tissue factor identified as promising new biomarker for aggressive cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recently discovered form of the protein that triggers blood clotting may play a key role in the molecular mechanisms leading to the growth of certain metastatic cancers, according to new research reported by an international ...


New prognostic marker for human breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Elevated levels of GLI1 (glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1) protein in human breast cancer are associated with unfavorable prognosis and progressive stages of disease. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Ca ...


Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells

Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.


A potential therapeutic agent for hepatic fibrosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Accumulating evidence suggests that connective tissue growth factor (CCN2) plays a central role in fibrotic conditions in many organ systems. Fibrosis is a scarring condition that is characterized by excessive collagen production ...


Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?



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