The new technique solves one of the most challenging safety hurdles associated with personalized stem cell-based medicine because for the first time it enables scientists to make stem cells in the laboratory from adult cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 23, 2009
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There is a need for new drugs. For example, many of the antibiotics that we have been using for a long time are becoming less effective. Chemists and pharmaceutical scientists are frantically searching for new active substances, ...
Biochemistry
Apr 13, 2023
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Scientists have identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis. The results of the research project, partly funded by the Academy of Finland, have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 27, 2012
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An international team of researchers, led by Professor Gustavo Goldman of the University of São Paulo and Maynooth University's Dr. Özgür Bayram, has unveiled ground-breaking findings on Aspergillus fumigatus, which can ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 4, 2024
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Interspecies chimerism is a phenomenon of an organism consisting of tissue and genetic information from two different species. Currently, many studies investigate the use of interspecies chimerism with human pluripotent stem ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2022
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A team of scientists, physicians, and engineers from the Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM) and the Transplant Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA reported ...
Engineering
Nov 29, 2017
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised a pouch designed to create temporary chimeras—mixed species—to treat diseases. In a proof-of-concept study, the device protected transplanted human liver cells from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 12, 2021
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Treating equine donor stem cells with a growth factor called TGF-β2 may allow them to avoid 'tripping' the immune response in recipients, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work could simplify ...
Veterinary medicine
Feb 4, 2021
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(AP) -- Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has an "excellent prognosis" after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, a doctor confirmed Tuesday.
Business
Jun 24, 2009
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Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors through a software update that will add an easy sign-up button to the health information app that comes installed on every smartphone the company ...
Other
Jul 5, 2016
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