News tagged with regeneration
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1 gene lost = 1 limb regained? Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through single gene deletion
A quest that began over a decade ago with a chance observation has reached a milestone: the identification of a gene that may regulate regeneration in mammals. The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing ...
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Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Salamanders, regenerative wonders, heal like mammals, people
The salamander is a superhero of regeneration, able to replace lost limbs, damaged lungs, sliced spinal cord -- even bits of lopped-off brain. But it turns out that remarkable ability isn't so mysterious after ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Scientists solve ageing puzzle (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by Newcastle University experts could provide the next step in fighting age related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Sodium plays key role in tissue regeneration
Sodium gets a bad rap for contributing to hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Now biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have discovered that sodium also plays a key role in initiating ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Seeing the world with new eyes: Biosynthetic corneas restore vision in humans
A new study from researchers in Canada and Sweden has shown that biosynthetic corneas can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans. The results, from an early phase clinical ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Overturning 250 years of scientific theory: Age, repeated injury do not affect newt regeneration
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have been wrong for 250 years about a fundamental aspect of tissue regeneration, according to a University of Dayton biologist who says his recent discovery is good news for humans.
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Researchers regenerate axons necessary for voluntary movement
For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Extensive regeneration in nerve connecting eye to brain achieved
Damage to the optic nerve, connecting the eye with the brain, is a major cause of blindness. The most common culprit is glaucoma, estimated to affect more than 4 million Americans. There is currently no way to restore the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Impact of cannabis on bones changes with age, study finds
Scientists investigating the effects of cannabis on bone health have found that its impact varies dramatically with age.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Scientists use nature's design principles to create specialized nanofabrics
In Nature, cells and tissues assemble and organize themselves within a matrix of protein fibers that ultimately determines their structure and function, such as the elasticity of skin and the contractility ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Scientists propose new theory of autism
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but dysregulated, meaning symptoms ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 01, 2009 |
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A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Body builders -- the worms that point the way to understanding tissue regeneration
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regenerate its own body parts after amputation -- including a whole head and brain.
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Technique triggers rapid regrowth in damaged bone (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to re-grow a broken bone three times more quickly than normal. (Harry Potter fans? Think Skele-gro.) That’s just what researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 29, 2010 |
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