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Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.


Researchers Discover Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells

Researchers Discover Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells

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created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University scientists today reported evidence suggesting that the tiny cilia found on brain cells of mammals, thought to be vestiges of a primeval past, actually play a critical role ...


Reprogramming Adult Stem Cells in the Brain

Reprogramming Adult Stem Cells in the Brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0

In recent years, stem cell researchers have become very adept at manipulating the fate of adult stem cells cultured in the lab. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies achieved the same ...


Researchers link early stem cell mutation to autism

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

In a breakthrough scientific study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have shown that neural stem cell development may be linked ...


New study pinpoints gene controlling number of brain cells (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes - proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials - and differentiation, in which ...


Exercise increases brain growth factor and receptors, prevents stem cell drop in middle age

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A new study confirms that exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells in the hippocampus of the mouse brain, and suggests that this happens because exercise restores a brain chemical ...


Reversing Brain Defects

Scientists succeed through stem cell therapy in reversing brain birth defects

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in reversing brain birth defects in animal models, using stem cells to replace defective brain cells.


Memories of the way they used to be

Memories of the way they used to be

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have developed a safe strategy for reprogramming cells to a pluripotent ...


Human ES cells progress slowly in myelin's direction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, USA, report in the journal Development the successful generation from human embryonic stem cells of a type of cell that can make myelin, a finding that opens up new possibilities for bo ...


Stem cells improve damaged spines in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers at Keio University has succeeded in improving spinal cord damage in mice by transplanting into them neural stem cells produced with human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, they said.


Well-known enzyme is unexpected contributor to brain growth

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

An enzyme researchers have studied for years because of its potential connections to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, appears to have yet another major role to play: helping create and maintain the ...


Researchers identify key mechanism that regulates the development of stem cells into neurons

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created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel mechanism in the regulation and differentiation of neural stem cells.


Study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University ...


Stem cells replace stroke-damaged tissue in rats

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Effective stem cell treatment for strokes has taken a significant step forward today as scientists reveal how they have replaced stroke-damaged brain tissue in rats.


Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and ...