News tagged with transplants
Texas AgriLife researchers working to develop heartier, better-adapted crops
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Dr. Daniel Leskovar, a Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde, has been investigating ways to help vegetable plants make a less stressful transition from the ...
Lung tissue generated from human embryonic stem cells
Nov 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and ...
Prevent tomato late blight next growing season
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...
Study results promise faster recovery from life-threatening blood cell shortages
Sep 02, 2009 |
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A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a study published online today in the journal Blood. While the study was in mice, in the ...
Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University ...
Cell transplantation and cardiac repair
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The frontiers of cell transplantation for cardiac repair are discussed in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol. 18 No.3), now available on-line.
Double hand transplant taking place in Pittsburgh
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
Cell transplants may cure deafness
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers find molecular 'key' to successful blood stem cell transplants
Apr 22, 2009 |
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University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a "molecular key" that could help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
S.Korea scientists clone pig for human transplants
Apr 22, 2009 |
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South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.
Boy came for a liver, but left with a heart
Apr 14, 2009 |
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It started as something of a medical mystery that, at first, doctors couldn't figure out.
New technique invented to reveal pancreatic stem cells
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Wanted: stems cells. Just like those absconders chased by police all over the world, everybody can tell about their good deeds but none really knows how to recognize them. Yet, as of today, thanks to a study just published ...
Risk score helps identify candidates for combined heart and kidney transplants
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified a set of criteria that, when combined with a measure of kidney function, could help identify patients who are likely to receive a survival benefit from a combined heart and kidney transplant, according ...
Gene mutation increases drug toxicity, rejection risk in pediatric kidney transplants
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Screening for mutations in a gene that helps the body metabolize a kidney transplant anti-rejection drug may predict which children are at higher risk for side effects, including compromised white blood cell count or organ ...
