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Small molecules for neural stem cells

European scientists used chemical genetics to discover molecules that could serve as future regenerative medicines to treat neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Healing with math

Understanding the way our bodies heal is not as easy as 1, 2, 3. But a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher believes mathematics holds the answers to complex biological problems.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Epigenetic signatures direct the repair potential of reprogrammed cells

A research team has identified epigenetic signatures, markers on DNA that control transient changes in gene expression, within reprogrammed skin cells. These signatures can predict the expression of a wound-healing protein ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create a functional model of the extracellular matrix

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix that provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation. The model could lead to advances ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The extracellular matrix

NPL scientists have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix which provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation and could lead to advances in regenerative medicine.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biochemists identify how tissue cells detect and perfect

Scientists have discovered how cells detect tissue damage and modify their repair properties accordingly. The findings, published today [6 October] in the journal Developmental Cell, could open up new opportunities for im ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Controlling self-renewal of stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) are the first to establish a direct link between a conserved stem cell factor and the cell cycle regulation in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineering excitable cells for studies of bioelectricity and cell therapy

By altering the genetic makeup of normally "unexcitable" cells, Duke University bioengineers have turned them into cells capable of generating and passing electrical current.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Singapore scientists discover how to control fate of stem cells

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Heads or tails? Worm with abundant ability to regenerate relies on ancient gene to make decisions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people don’t think worms are cool. But the tiny flatworm that Northwestern University scientist Christian Petersen studies can do something very cool indeed: it can regenerate itself from nearly ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New stem cell research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from King's College London have uncovered the first genetic evidence that shows cells found on the surface of blood vessels can act as stem cells to assist in both organ growth ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Erg gene key to blood stem cell 'self-renewal'

Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have begun to unravel how blood stem cells regenerate themselves, identifying a key gene required for the process.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Patent improved growth factor technology

Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Biosurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET) of Rockville, Maryland, have been issued a U.S. patent for an improved second-generation ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Synthetic peptide may regenerate brain tissue in stroke victims

A synthetic version of a naturally occurring peptide promoted the creation of new blood vessels and repaired damaged nerve cells in lab animals, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells (w/ Video)

University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1