News tagged with neural stem cell

Scientists create stable, self-renewing neural stem cells

In a paper published in the April 25 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Gladstone Instit ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New study pinpoints gene controlling number of brain cells (w/ Video)

In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes - proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials - and differentiation, in which ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Human ES cells progress slowly in myelin's direction

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, USA, report in the journal Development the successful generation from human embryonic stem cells of a type of cell that can make myelin, a finding that opens up new possibilities for bo ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Well-known enzyme is unexpected contributor to brain growth

An enzyme researchers have studied for years because of its potential connections to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, appears to have yet another major role to play: helping create and maintain the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Scientists succeed through stem cell therapy in reversing brain birth defects

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in reversing brain birth defects in animal models, using stem cells to replace defective brain cells.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Cells derived from pluripotent stem cells are developmentally immature

Stem cell researchers at UCLA have discovered that three types of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are similar to each other, but are much more developmentally immature than ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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What decides neural stem cell fate?

Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and their collaborators found that expression of a gene called SOX2 maintains the potential for neural crest stem cells to become neurons in the peripheral nervous ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Key innovations in stem-cell technology will advance medicine

A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has made two significant stem-cell discoveries that advance medicine and human health by creating powerful new approaches for using stem cells and stem-cell-like technology.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Neural stem cells maintain high levels of reactive oxygen species, study finds

For years, the majority of research on reactive oxygen species (ROS) – ions or very small molecules that include free radicals – has focused on how they damage cell structure and their potential link to stroke, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Stem cell advance a step forward for treatment of brain diseases

Scientists have created a way to isolate neural stem cells – cells that give rise to all the cell types of the brain – from human brain tissue with unprecedented precision, an important step toward developing new ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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How do neural stem cells decide what to be -- and when?

Researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a novel feedback mechanism that controls the delicate balance of brain stem cells.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Rescue services at the cellular level: How stem cells help brain to regain its functions after stroke

(PhysOrg.com) -- The aim of regenerative medicine is to repair or replace malfunctioning cells, tissues, and even organs. Stem cells, the multi-taskers and jacks-of-all-trades that can regenerate themselves ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Live imaging puts new light on stem cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-held assumption about asymmetrical division of stem cells has cracked. Researchers at the University of Oregon report that the mitotic spindle does not act alone -- that cortical proteins ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Scientists 'reprogram' mouse fat cells into clinically useful stem cells

Australian scientists from the Monash Institute of Medical Research have "reprogrammed" adult mouse fat cells and neural cells to become stem cells that can differentiate into a variety of different cells (pluripotency). ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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