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Scientists have rescued visual function in laboratory rats with eye disease by using cells similar to stem cells. The research shows the potential for stem cell-based therapies to treat age-related macular degeneration in humans.
( Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ) The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival is not as clear. A study on fruit flies published in the Oct. 2 issue of Science by Johns Hopkins ...
( Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ) Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells.
Because of Coach Andy Talley, more than 1,000 football players, staff and students from nine universities registered for the National Marrow Donor Program in 2008.
A committee advising the NIH recommends approval for another batch of stem cell lines, but asks for guidance on whether lines can be used for research beyond what's specified in consent forms
UCSF leaders, a patient advocate who is a member of the board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and construction workers will gather for a “topping off” ceremony to celebrate the placement of the last structural steel beam on the building that will be the headquarters for The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Research Council of Canada said today that a new bioinformatics lab has opened at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick as part of a multi-partner initiative.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The White House has appointed two scientists, Amy Gutman and James Wagner , to lead the new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health has granted $1 million to Vanderbilt University to fund a collaboration between researchers at Vanderbilt's School of Medicine and the University of Texas, Dallas, to develop bioinformatics technologies and techniques for use in integrating and protecting patients' genomic data privacy.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the U.S. Now a new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant patients from one of the most serious complications of the life-saving cancer therapy: graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD. The findings are reported in the Nov. 4 first ...
Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the US. Now a new study indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant patients from one of the most serious complications of the life-saving cancer therapy: graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD.
Small study found they spurred blood vessel growth after heart attack.
Sophia Tavolacci, left, spends some quality time with her sister Christina. Neither child goes to school as a result of Sophia’s illness and this has prompted involvement by the Administration for Children’s Services.
Sophia Tavolacci, clad in a pink shirt and matching pants, clung to her father’s knee because she is shy around strangers.
CONCORD — To students at Pine Hollow Middle School, "compassion" was more than just a word of the month they studied in class.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Pro-family issues remain the most often cited concern in resolutions adopted at the 41 state Baptist convention meetings.
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