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Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed an experimental therapy that eliminates blood vessel blockage associated with old age or diabetes.
Title: Stem Cells May Hold Hope for Eye Disease Category: Health News Created: 12/8/2009 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 12/9/2009
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Researchers find weapon in cellular biology
Decoding the data from the blood cancer meeting.
Creating an environment that brings together researchers working in basic science and those with a more clinical focus will be a key goal for the University of Massachusetts Medical School's proposed RNA Therapeutics Institute, according to its four co-directors.
In many bird species, the males get all the glory with elaborate, colorful plumes, while females' drab appearance keeps them under the radar. This is thought to be the case when females are choosy and males must compete against each other for mates.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- NFL Charities has donated $1.5 million in grants to support sports-related medical research at 11 organizations to examine brain and knee injuries.
Life Technologies plans to launch in mid-2010 an "open kit" for its line of TaqMan Protein Expression Assays, which will enable researchers to design their own real-time qPCR-based proximity-ligation assays for protein analysis.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- University of Michigan researchers say they will begin accepting donated human embryos to create embryonic stem cell lines.
SEATTLE, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. cancer researchers say they've found drugs known as statins might protect stem cell transplant patients from graft-versus-host disease.
By looking at yeast cells, a biologist has figured out one way in which cells can transform themselves: a cellular "machine" removes a regulatory "lid."
Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's disease and the rarer but always fatal neurological disorder, Niemann-Pick Type C, according to a presentation that Lawrence B. Goldstein, Ph.D., will give at the ...
BALTIMORE, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Johns Hopkins University scientists working with mice say they've shown a specific protein might be a marker for breast cancer cells.
Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells -- a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases. The study provides proof-of-principle -- that is, a demonstration of feasibility -- that human stem cells can be engineered into the equivalent of a genetic ...
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