News tagged with skin tissue
Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage ...
Green tea component may help preserve stored platelets, tissues
Sep 14, 2009 |
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In two separate studies, a major component in green tea, epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG), has been found to help prolong the preservation of both stored blood platelets and cryopreserved skin tissues.
Reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts can make a whole mouse
Jul 23, 2009 |
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In a paper publishing online July 23 in Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, Dr. Shaorong Gao and colleagues from the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing, China, report an important advance in the charac ...
To spread, skin cancer attacks immune dendritic cells
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dendritic cells are the sentinels of the immune system. When they’re alert and on guard, they will marshal the body’s immunosoldiers, T cells, to battle at the sight of harmful pathogens. But some diseases, ...
Production line for artificial skin
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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Some patients wish they had a second skin – for instance because their own skin has been burnt in a severe accident. But transplanting skin is a painstaking task, and a transplant that has to cover large areas ...
