News tagged with bone regeneration

Cell Transplantation study shows bone growth from implanted tooth and dental pulp stem cells

Researchers in Japan have completed a study showing that stem cells derived from deciduous canine teeth and dental pulp can be grafted and produce bone regeneration between parents and offspring. Their results are published ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shaping up: Controlling a stem cell's form can determine its fate

"Form follows function!" was the credo of early 20th century architects making design choices based on the intended use of the structure. Cell biologists may be turning that on its head. New research by a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transforming skin cells into cartilage

In this paper, Noriyuki Tsumaki and his team at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, used fibroblasts isolated from adult mouse skin, and expressed proteins used to induce pluripotency along with a factor that ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem Cells from Fat May Help Heal Bone in Wounded Soldiers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soldiers in combat suffer massive wounds to bone and tissue quite unlike most injuries that civilian doctors treat. Explosive blasts, rarely encountered in civilian life, cause about 2/3 of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Technique triggers rapid regrowth in damaged bone (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to re-grow a broken bone three times more quickly than normal. (Harry Potter fans? Think Skele-gro.) That’s just what researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glass helps damaged bone regenerate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A prosthodontist from Egypt is helping Lehigh researchers develop bioactive glass that mimics the behavior of living tissue.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Offering hope for tissue regeneration

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have discovered how cells communicate with each other during times of cellular injury. The findings shed new light on how the body repairs itself when organs become diseased, through small ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study Finds Treatment With Anabolic Hormone May Enhance Local Bone Regeneration

(PhysOrg.com) -- In research that could open new avenues of investigation in the prevention and treatment of fractures, in bone regeneration and tissue engineering, scientists from Yale School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Building Up Broken Bones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any one of the 8 million Americans who suffer bone fractures each year knows how hard it is to wait for the bones to knit, or heal. Bone healing is also important for integration of dental ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Enhanced stem cells promote tissue regeneration

MIT engineers have boosted stem cells' ability to regenerate vascular tissue (such as blood vessels) by equipping them with genes that produce extra growth factors (naturally occurring compounds that stimulate tissue growth). ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Impact of cannabis on bones changes with age, study finds

Scientists investigating the effects of cannabis on bone health have found that its impact varies dramatically with age.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1