News tagged with regenerative therapies

A cardiac use for stem cells

It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart?

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Regenerative stem cell therapy offers new hope for treating cardiovascular disease

Northwestern Medicine physician researchers are revolutionizing treatment of cardiovascular disease by utilizing patients' own stem cells to regenerate heart and vascular tissue. Northwestern Medicine is the lead site for ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Supportive materials will help regenerate heart tissue (w/ Video)

Bioengineers from University of California, San Diego are developing new regenerative therapies for heart disease. The work could influence the way in which regenerative therapies for cardiovascular and other diseases are ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

For the first time, scientists in the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network have successfully used gene therapy to repair injured human donor lungs, making them potentially suitable ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Scientists find common trigger in cancer and normal stem cell reproduction

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered, for the first time, a common molecular pathway that is used by both normal stem cells and cancer stem cells when they reproduce themselves.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1