All Articles Tagged As: bone

Stem cells offer cartilage repair hope for arthritis sufferers (4/14/2008)

Bone stem cells may be harnessed to repair the damaged cartilage that is one of the main symptoms of osteoarthritis ...> Full Article

Same Process Discovered To Both Form Skeleton and Protect it For Life (3/14/2008)

Findings Suggests Related Treatments for Bone Cancer, Osteoporosis and Alzheimer's ...> Full Article

Scientists Testing Stem Cell Treatment on Injured Horses (2/22/2008)

Researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) are offering stem cell therapy to repair injured tendons and ligaments in horses with the aim of researching the possibility of similar treatment in humans. ...> Full Article

Heart hormone crucial for skeletal growth in the foetus, children and adolescents (2/10/2008)

Researchers have broken new scientific ground with discoveries regarding a previously little understood heart hormone, showing how it is crucial for bone development and growth after birth. ...> Full Article

Bone Marrow Stem Cell Release Regulated By Brain's Biological Clock (2/8/2008)

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that the release of blood stem cells from bone marrow is regulated by the brain through the cyclical human biological clock, via adrenergic signals transmitted by the sympathetic nervous system. These new findings point out that the harvest of stem cells for transplantation may be improved by timing it at the peak of their release. ...> Full Article

Stem cells treatment for brittle bones in the womb (1/30/2008)

The extraordinary results of an in utero stem cell treatment could lead to a new treatment for babies with brittle bones, as well as a range of other disabling conditions, according to a maternal-fetal medicine researcher, now based at The University of Queensland (UQ). ...> Full Article

Cancer drug activates adult stem cells (1/29/2008)

Potential treatment for osteoporosis and other degenerative conditions ...> Full Article

Key Bone Building Pathway Identified in Mice (1/28/2008)

Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, and Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have uncovered a biochemical signaling pathway that leads to the formation of abnormally large bones in mice. For humans, the discovery may provide clues to both childhood bone formation and osteoporosis -- the loss of bone in old age -- as well as a path to improved osteoporosis treatments. The research is detailed in a paper in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Turning on adult stem cells may help repair bone (1/26/2008)

Potential new approach to treating osteoporosis, other degenerative conditions ...> Full Article

Adult Stem Cells Beneficial in Heart Failure Recovery (1/26/2008)

A study in the Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology published by Wiley-Blackwell shows that administration of adult bone marrow stem cells (BMC) and mesenchymal stems cells (MSC) can aid in the recovery of myocardial infarction (MI) - commonly known as heart attack - and consequently increase survival rates. ...> Full Article

Cell printing pioneer shortlisted for major prize (1/25/2008)

A professor who developed technology that allows tailor-made tissues and bones to be grown has been shortlisted for a major international prize that recognises world changing ideas. ...> Full Article

New Treatment Boosts Bone Healing and Re-Growth (1/12/2008)

A drug originally used to treat iron poisoning can significantly boost the body's own ability to heal and re-grow injured bones, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). ...> Full Article

Scientists Tap Amniotic Fluid For Stem Cells (1/12/2008)

Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have reported success in using otherwise discarded amniotic fluid as a source of stem cells from which they have created muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells in the laboratory. ...> Full Article

Partnership formed to develop bone marrow stem cell technology (11/20/2007)

The University of Louisville Monday announced a partnership between the UofL Research Foundation and NeoStem Inc., a New York City-based adult stem cell company, to develop Very Small Embryonic-Like stem cell (VSEL) technology. ...> Full Article

Seaweed Transformed Into Stem Cell Technology (11/9/2007)

Engineers develop degradable scaffold that releases stem cells in the body ...> Full Article

New enzyme research targets osteoporosis (9/25/2007)

Biophysical chemist is working on new research which one day may slow down or switch off certain diseases. ...> Full Article

Researchers send experiments into space (9/14/2007)

When a Foton spacecraft launches from Kazakhstan on Sept. 14, two U of T professors will be bidding farewell to its passengers. Not to astronauts - the ship is unmanned - but to their experiments. ...> Full Article

Scientists speed healing of bone damage (9/7/2007)

Blocking a naturally occurring inhibitor of bone formation accelerates healing of skull defects in mice, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The finding advances the understanding of how the skeleton develops and opens new therapeutic avenues for many of the disorders that are expected to afflict aging baby boomers. ...> Full Article

Molecules that Play Role in Bone Size (9/5/2007)

Mice that do not make the protein CD200 have bigger bones, a finding that raises possibilities for treating osteoporosis, according to a report this week by a Yale School of Medicine researcher in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Studying How Human Bones Work And Fail (7/22/2007)

After 9-year-old Roberto Ballarini moved with his family from Italy to Brooklyn, he became fascinated by the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, and, especially, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn. Little wonder he became a civil engineer. ...> Full Article

Researchers Experiment With Stem Cells That Can Regenerate Bone And Skin Tissue (7/18/2007)

If Songtao Shi's latest discovery ever reaches Southern California clinics, "Oh, she's had a stem cell job," may one day replace the ubiquitous "She's had work done" as a tabloid euphemism for the efforts of the well-heeled to turn back the clock. ...> Full Article

Researchers Probe Bones' Tiny Building Blocks (5/25/2007)

Team's results could lead to new composites that mimic bones' capacity to 'fail gracefully' ...> Full Article

Researchers Growing Bone in a Lab (5/22/2007)

As the nation ages, an estimated 44 million Americans, including at least half of those ages 50 and older, are at risk for osteoporosis, making their bones fragile and vulnerable to serious fractures. ...> Full Article

Neural Mechanisms Play Role In Healthy Bone Growth (4/24/2007)

Scientists searching for a gene therapy to control obesity have unexpectedly discovered a way that the brain regulates bone growth, a finding that shines new light on osteoporosis and other bone-robbing diseases. ...> Full Article

Intelligent materials to regenerate bone tissue (3/30/2007)

Scientists working on the regeneration and repair of bone tissue by developing a support matrix out of a compound that is intelligent. ...> Full Article