News tagged with human transplants
Plasma in bags
Using plasmas, sealed plastic bags can be modified at atmospheric pressure so that human cells can adhere to and reproduce on their walls. Cell culture bags of this kind are an important aid for research and ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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More than bacon: Genetic alterations in pig tissue may allow for human transplantation
A sizzling genetic discovery by Chinese scientists may one day allow pig tissue to be transplanted successfully into humans. Their research presented in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology represents a major step forward toward ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Patients infected with HIV have higher drop-out rate for liver transplantation
French researchers determined that infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) impaired results of transplant surgery for liver cancer, with more HIV infected patients dropping off the transplantation wait list. The ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Scientists turn skin into blood (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
Nov 07, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal first structure of a class of proteins that help guide blood cell movement
Researchers have determined the structure of a protein that helps guide blood-forming stem cells, or hematopoetic stem cells. The protein is also one of the main receptors used by the human immunodeficiency ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Welsh scientists 'clone' human virus
A team of Welsh scientists have successfully cloned a human virus offering new hope for the treatment of potentially life-threatening diseases.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Vanishing bile duct syndrome secondary to anti-retroviral therapy in HIV
Vanishing bile duct syndrome (VBDS) is an important cause of jaundice, and results from destruction of bile ducts in the liver. However, this syndrome is rare in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Nevirapine, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Ovarian transplantation restores fertility to old mice and also lengthens their lives
Scientists have discovered that when they transplant ovaries from young mice into aging female mice, not only does the procedure make the mice fertile again, but also it rejuvenates their behaviour and increases their lifespan. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 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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Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect
A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 27, 2010 |
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Research into stem cells of adults stirs hopes
A year after President Barack Obama eased restrictions on research into embryonic stem cells and pledged billions in new stimulus money for it, researchers are almost giddy with enthusiasm about progress in the field. They're ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Gene expression test reduces need for invasive heart muscle biopsy
Monitoring rejection in heart transplantation patients with a simple blood test co-developed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center physician-scientist Dr. Mario Deng in 2005 can safely reduce ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease
A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 05, 2009 |
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First human gets new antibody aimed at hepatitis C virus
Building upon a series of successful preclinical studies, researchers at MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Placenta-derived stem cells may help sufferers of lung diseases
An Italian research team, publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:4), has found that stem cells derived from human placenta may ultimately play a role in the treatment of lung diseases, such as pulmon ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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