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Scientists produce first stem cells from endangered species

Starting with normal skin cells, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first stem cells from endangered species. Such cells could eventually make it possible to improve reproduction ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers engineer adult stem cells that do not age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University at Buffalo have engineered adult stem cells that scientists can grow continuously in culture, a discovery that could speed development of cost-effective treatments ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop new way to grow adult stem cells in culture

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a technique they believe will help scientists overcome a major hurdle to the use of adult stem cells for treating muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When is a stem cell really a stem cell?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- adult cells reprogrammed to look and function like versatile embryonic stem cells -- are of growing interest in medicine. They may provide a way to ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists program blood stem cells to become vision cells

University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice, suggesting a potential treatment for one of the most common causes of vision loss in older people.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

A major breakthrough in generating safer, therapeutic stem cells from adult cells

The new technique solves one of the most challenging safety hurdles associated with personalized stem cell-based medicine because for the first time it enables scientists to make stem cells in the laboratory from adult cells ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

UCSF team closer to creating safe embryonic-like stem cells

A team of UCSF researchers has for the first time used tiny molecules called microRNAs to help turn adult mouse cells back to their embryonic state. These reprogrammed cells are pluripotent, meaning that, like embryonic stem ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Cell microenvironments hold key to future stem cell therapies

Adult stem cells and their more committed kin, progenitor cells, are prized by medical researchers for their ability to produce different types of specialized cells. The potential of using these cells to repair ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists discover source of cancer stem cells' resistance to radiation

Much to the dismay of patients and physicians, cancer stem cells — tiny powerhouses that generate and maintain tumor growth in many types of cancers — are relatively resistant to the ionizing radiation often used as therapy ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Mechanical properties of stem cells can foretell what they will become

To become better healers, tissue engineering need a timely and reliable way to obtain enough raw materials: cells that either already are or can become the tissue they need to build. In a new study, Brown ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers discover what cancer cells need to travel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells must prepare for travel before invading new tissues, but new Cornell research has found a possible way to stop these cells from ever hitting the road.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientist suggests life began in freshwater pond, not the ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most everyone alive today, it's almost a fundamental fact. Life began in the ocean and evolved into all of the different organisms that exist today. The idea that this could be wrong causes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 41 | with audio podcast report

New study makes key finding in stem cell self-renewal

A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells like brain, liver or skin.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Not all cellular reprogramming is created equal

Tweaking the levels of factors used during the reprogramming of adult cells into induced pluriopotent stem (iPS) cells greatly affects the quality of the resulting iPS cells, according to Whitehead Institute researchers.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Intestinal stem cells respond to food by supersizing the gut

A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast