News tagged with blood stem
Scientists cultivate human brain's most ubiquitous cell in lab dish
Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system.
May 22, 2011 |
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Report: Transplant may have cured man of AIDS
A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use. The man, who is in his 40s, had a blood ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Study shows that blood stem cells are influenced by their offspring
A new study by researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has shown that mature blood cells can communicate with, and influence the behaviour of, their stem cell 'parents'.
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Artificial blood developed for the battlefield
(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists working for the experimental arm of the Pentagon have developed artificial blood for use in transfusions for wounded soldiers in battlefields. The blood cells are said to be ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 13, 2010 |
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HIV patients with lymphoma given new hope
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is widely treated using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which patients must continue throughout their lives. Now a new study suggests the patients’ own ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Blood tells old cells to act young
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center (JDC) have taken a major step toward eventually understanding -- and perhaps slowing -- the aging process.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists successfully reprogram blood cells
Researchers have transplanted genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells into mice so that their developing red blood cells produce a critical lysosomal enzyme -preventing or reducing organ and central nervous system damage ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Embryo's heartbeat drives blood stem cell formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long wondered why the embryonic heart begins beating so early, before the tissues actually need to be infused with blood. Two groups of researchers from Children's Hospital ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 13, 2009 |
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Insulin, nutrition prevent blood stem cell differentiation in fruit flies
UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition keep blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a finding that has implications for studying inflammatory ...
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Aging-related degeneration caused by defects of energy metabolism in tissue stem cells?
Aging-related tissue degeneration can be caused by mitochondrial dysfunction in tissue stem cells. The research group of Professor Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara in Helsinki University, with their collaborators in Max Planck ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
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New method to grow synthetic collagen unveiled
In a significant advance for cosmetic and reconstructive medicine, scientists at Rice University have unveiled a new method for making synthetic collagen. The new material, which forms from a liquid in as ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Exercise boosts health by influencing stem cells to become bone, not fat, researchers find
McMaster researchers have found one more reason to exercise: working out triggers influential stem cells to become bone instead of fat, improving overall health by boosting the body's capacity to make blood.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell production from human stem cells
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient's own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Stem cells know where they want to go
Human stem cells have the ability to become any cell type in the human body, but when it comes to their destination they know where they want to go.
Jul 07, 2011 |
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