News tagged with muscle stem

Immortal worms defy aging

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (38) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation

Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a "stem cell," such as a neural stem cell. As helpful as this is to researchers, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 30, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover new method for regenerating heart muscle by direct reprogramming

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found a new way to make beating heart cells from the body's own cells that could help regenerate damaged hearts. Over 5 million Americans suffer ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle - and then watched it beat - by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists discover clues to what makes human muscle age

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 3

Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration (w/ Podcast)

Scientists working at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, with colleagues, have overturned previous research that identified critical genes for making muscle stem cells. It turns out that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

First test-tube hamburger ready this fall: researchers

The world's first "test-tube" meat, a hamburger made from a cow's stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday.

Biology / Other

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 27

Need muscle for a tough spot? Turn to fat stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells derived from fat have a surprising trick up their sleeves: Encouraged to develop on a stiff surface, they undergo a remarkable transformation toward becoming mature muscle cells. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Bioengineers reprogram muscles to combat degeneration

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | 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

Stem cell study could pave the way to treatment for age-related muscle wasting

A team led by developmental biologist Professor Christophe Marcelle has nailed the mechanism that causes stem cells in the embryo to differentiate into specialised cells that form the skeletal muscles of animals' bodies. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zebrafish regrow fins using multiple cell types, not identical stem cells

What does it take to regenerate a limb? Biologists have long thought that organ regeneration in animals like zebrafish and salamanders involved stem cells that can generate any tissue in the body. But new ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A cardiac use for stem cells

It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart?

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is ultimately a stem cell disease

For years, scientists have tried to understand why children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy experience severe muscle wasting and eventual death. After all, laboratory mice with the same mutation that causes the disease in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A 'stitch in time' could help damaged hearts

A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has demonstrated the feasibility of a novel technology that a surgeon could use to deliver stem cells to targeted areas of the body to repair diseased ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast