Cloning And Stem Cell News, Research and Resources - January 2009 Archives
 | Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells. ...> Full Article |
Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants -- a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells -- researchers at New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have found.
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Discovery may lead to new treatments for infertility
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A therapy developed at UC Irvine that made paralyzed rats walk again will become the world's first embryonic stem cell treatment tested in humans.
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Geron to Study GRNOPC1 in Patients with Acute Spinal Cord Injury
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Two review articles examining the best sites for islet cell transplantation, value of porcine islet cells, and engineering of a bioartificial pancreas demonstrate that problems of poor engraftment and immune recognition can be better prevented, making islet transplantation more feasible. Findings suggest the pancreas remains the best site for islet transplantation; porcine islet cells for transplant can be obtained in quantity and easily proliferate; and a newly fabricated prevascularized bioartificial pancreas can increase blood flow.
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New study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin
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New report in the FASEB Journal describes organic material that supports and attracts cells necessary for muscle repair
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 | A research team led by Nancy Speck, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has identified the location and developmental timeline in which a majority of bone marrow stem cells form in the mouse embryo. The findings, appearing online this week in the journal Nature, highlight critical steps in the origin of hematopoietic (or blood) stem cells. ...> Full Article |
Scientists have tricked bone marrow into releasing extra adult stem cells into the bloodstream, a technique that they hope could one day be used to repair heart damage or mend a broken bone, in a new study published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
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Stem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have identified a gene, scrawny, that appears to be a key factor in keeping a variety of stem cells in their undifferentiated state. Understanding how stem cells maintain their potency has implications for basic biology and also for medical applications.
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A Boston University Medical School research team has found a more efficient way to create induced pluripotent stem cells using a single virus vector instead of multiple viruses in the reprogramming process. The ability to combine four vectors into single "stem cell cassette" containing all four genes using a combinatioin of 2A peptides and IRES dramatically improves iPS cell productioin efficiency -- 10 times higher than previously reported studies.
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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at UC-San Francisco have succeeded in isolating stem cells from human testes. The cells bear a striking resemblance to embryonic stem cells -- they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body -- but the researchers caution against viewing them as one and the same.
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New data on cell-based therapeutic approaches to cardiovascular diseases will be presented
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University of Cincinnati researchers have discovered a new therapy for transplant patients, targeting the antibody-producing plasma cells that can cause organ rejection.
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