News tagged with newborn cells

Brown fat cells make 'spare tires' shrink

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bonn have found a new signalling pathway which stimulates the production and function of so-called brown fat cells. They propose using these cells that serve as a "natural ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Exposure to secondhand smoke in the womb has lifelong impact

Newborns of non-smoking moms exposed to secondhand smoke during pregnancy have genetic mutations that may affect long-term health, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study published online ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers use stem cells to treat children with life-threatening, blistering skin disease

University of Minnesota Physician-researchers have demonstrated that a lethal skin disease can be successfully treated with stem cell therapy.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Paternal mice bond with their offspring through the power of touch

New research from neuroscientist Samuel Weiss, PhD, director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the Faculty of Medicine, shows that paternal mice that physically interact with their babies grow new brain cells and form lasting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new source of immune cells during pregnancy

UCSF researchers have shown for the first time that the human fetal immune system arises from an entirely different source than the adult immune system, and is more likely to tolerate than fight foreign substances in its ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover biochemical weakness of malaria parasite -- vaccine to be developed

Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

No 'Death NET'? That May Explain Why Millions of Infants are at Risk for Potentially Deadly Blood Infection

(PhysOrg.com) -- When locked in mortal combat with infection, some mature white blood cells have a formidable weapon: they literally cast a DNA net-called a neutrophil extracellular trap (NET)-that captures ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create autistic neuron model

Using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with Rett syndrome, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have created functional neurons that provide the first human ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast