News tagged with limb defects

First patients receive lab-grown blood vessels from donor cells

For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Embryology study offers clues to birth defects (w/Video)

Gregg Duester, Ph.D., professor of developmental biology at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), along with Xianling Zhao, Ph.D., and colleagues, have clarified the role that retinoic acid plays in limb development. ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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UGA discovery uses 'fracture putty' to repair broken bone in days

Broken bones in humans and animals are painful and often take months to heal. Studies conducted in part by University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center researchers show promise to significantly shorten the healing ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Muscling in on multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative disease, causes periodic attacks of neurologic symptoms such as limb weakness and mobility defects. And while MS patients' walking abilities and muscle strength are examined on ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers find gene critical to sense of smell in fruit fly

(Medical Xpress) -- Fruit flies don't have noses, but a huge part of their brains is dedicated to processing smells. Flies probably rely on the sense of smell more than any other sense for essential activities ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals enzyme function, could help find muscular dystrophy therapies

Researchers at the University of Iowa have worked out the exact function of an enzyme that is critical for normal muscle structure and is involved in several muscular dystrophies. The findings, which were published Jan. 6 ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A shot of young stem cells made rapidly aging mice live longer and healthier

Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SANS tracks cell death protein invading biomimetic mitochondrial membrane

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of biochemists, biophysicists, and neutron scientists are using a combination of fluorescence and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) techniques to assist biochemists ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover that changes in bioelectric signals cause tadpoles to grow eyes in back, tail

For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism. Using ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Body rebuilding: Researchers regenerate muscle in mice

A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening the door ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New muscle repair gene discovered

An international team of researchers from Leeds, London and Berlin has discovered more about the function of muscle stem cells, thanks to next-generation DNA sequencing techniques.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers work with platelet-rich plasma to heal chronic wounds in veterans

(Medical Xpress) -- During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, blast injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and roadsides bombs took countless lives and left thousands of soldiers ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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