News tagged with pluripotent stem cells
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Pigs' connective tissue cells converted into stem cells (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, proponents have touted the benefits of embryonic stem cell research, but the potential therapies still face hurdles. Side effects such as tumor development, a lack of an effective ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells
Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells - cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body. It is the first time in the ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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New Method Gives Regenerative Medicine a Boost
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a breakthrough method for sequencing-based methylation profiling, which could help fuel personalized regenerative medicine and even lead to more ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Study finds blood cells can be reprogrammed to act as embryonic stem cells
In a recent study, U.S. researchers have reprogrammed cells found in circulating blood into cells that are molecularly and functionally indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, a revolutionary achievement that provides ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2009 |
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UCSF team closer to creating safe embryonic-like stem cells
A team of UCSF researchers has for the first time used tiny molecules called microRNAs to help turn adult mouse cells back to their embryonic state. These reprogrammed cells are pluripotent, meaning that, like embryonic stem ...
Apr 12, 2009 |
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Cancer stem cells generated by cancer outgrowth
Scientists have discovered that growing mouse skin cells in spheres can lead to generation of cells with properties of cancer stem cells, even without genetic manipulation of stem cell genes. This unexpected finding, published ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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New way to make stem cells avoids risk of cancer
A team of scientists has advanced stem cell research by finding a way to endow human skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without inserting potentially problematic new genes into their DNA. The team was led ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critical role in the pathways that control decisions for differentiation or self-renewal in both human embryonic ...
Mar 18, 2009 |
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What is the role of the omentum in regenerating the liver?
In their recent work to be published on March 7, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, Dr. Singh and his colleagues from the Cook County Hospital in Chicago (USA) first activated the omentum using a foreign body t ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Researchers make stem cell breakthrough
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal ...
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells
Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells - the stem cells that can give r ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Single factor converts adult stem cells into embryonic-like stem cells
The simple recipe scientists earlier discovered for making adult stem cells behave like embryonic-like stem cells just got even simpler. A new report in the February 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, ...
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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