News tagged with embryonic heart

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

Stem cell research in the UK reaches significant milestone

Stem cell scientists at King's College London will today announce they have submitted to the UK Stem Cell Bank (UKSCB) their first clinical grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines that are free from animal-derived products, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vatican, biotech firm host adult stem cell meeting

(AP) -- The Vatican has entered into an unusual partnership with a small U.S. biotech company to promote using adult stem cells for treating disease, rather than focusing research on embryonic stem cells.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light

In a compact lab space at Stanford University, Oscar Abilez, MD, trains a microscope on a small collection of cells in a petri dish. A video recorder projects what the microscope sees on a nearby monitor. The cells in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New insight into the regulation of stem cells and cancer cells

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gained new insight into the delicate relationship between two proteins that, when out of balance, can prevent the normal development of stem cells in the heart and may also be important ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many Americans approve of stem cell research for curing serious diseases

While research using human embryonic stem cells has roused political controversy for almost two decades, little has been done to scientifically assess American attitudes on the subject. New research from the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Scientists convert skin cells to beating heart cells

Scripps Research Institute scientists have converted adult skin cells directly into beating heart cells efficiently without having to first go through the laborious process of generating embryonic-like stem cells. The powerful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists trick cells into switching identities

Suppose you could repair tissue damaged by a heart attack by magically turning other cells into heart muscle, so the organ could pump effectively again.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

First US trial of bone-marrow stem cells for heart attack patients proves safe

The first randomized, placebo-controlled U.S. clinical trial to assess the use of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BMC) in patients after a ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; severe heart attack) demonstrated ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers find solution to cell death problem vexing stem cell research

Human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells can generate any given cell type in the adult human body, which is why they are of interest to stem cell scientists working on finding therapies for spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A heart beats to a different drummer (w/ Video)

Love, exercise and, new research shows, an infrared laser can make a heart beat faster. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University found that pulsed light can pace contractions in an avian embryonic ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Newts' ability to regenerate tissue replicated in mouse cells

Tissue regeneration a la salamanders and newts seems like it should be the stuff of science fiction. But it happens routinely. Why can't we mammals just re-grow a limb or churn out a few new heart muscle cells as needed? ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Improving clinical use of stem cells to repair heart damage

Presenting at the UK National Stem Cell Network annual science conference today
(13 July), Professor Michael Schneider describes a new approach to treating heart attack and cardiomyopathy using stem cells.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows key enzyme in fetal heart development also involved in adult heart disease

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified for the first time an enzyme that plays vital roles in both fetal heart development and in causing cardiac hypertrophy — an enlargement of the heart ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns

(AP) -- Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells - a stunning ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 0