News tagged with adult mice
Sniffing out a new source of stem cells
A team of researchers, led by Emmanuel Nivet, now at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, has generated data in mice that suggest that adult stem cells from immune system tissue in the smell-sensing region ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Scientists identify, isolate adult mammary stem cells in mice
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Caffeine doesn't reverse the negative cognitive impact of alcohol, study shows
People who drink may want to know that coffee won't sober them up, according to new laboratory research. Instead, a cup of coffee may make it harder for people to realize they're drunk.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Scientists create energy-burning brown fat in mice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that they can engineer mouse and human cells to produce brown fat, a natural energy-burning type of fat that counteracts obesity. If ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Stem cells crucial to diabetes cure in mice
More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Virus-free embryonic-like stem cells made from skin of Parkinson's disease patients
Researchers reporting in the March 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have developed a new way to produce human embryonic-like stem cells that are free of the viruses used to insert the ke ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells
Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells - the stem cells that can give r ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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