Proper tissue function and regeneration is supported by stem cells, which reside in so-called niches. New work from Carnegie's Yixian Zheng and Haiyang Chen identifies an important component for regulating stem cell niches, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 12, 2013
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In a paper published in Cell yesterday, scientists from the US and Thailand have, for the first time, successfully produced embryonic stem cells from human skin cells.
Cell & Microbiology
May 20, 2013
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A new study by researchers at UCLA suggests that the elasticity of the physical matrix used for growing heart muscle cells outside of the body may be critical to the success of cardiac tissue engineering. The results were ...
Materials Science
Apr 15, 2013
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VIB scientists associated to the UGent have developed a mouse model that can advance the research on iPS cells to the next step.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 21, 2013
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A discovery about the way in which bugs spread throughout the body could help to develop stem cell treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 17, 2013
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Every week in his clinic at the University of Michigan, neurologist Joseph Corey, M.D., Ph.D., treats patients whose nerves are dying or shrinking due to disease or injury.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 7, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a model for making quantifiable predictions of how a group of cells will react and change in response to a given environment ...
Biochemistry
Nov 1, 2012
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A group of researchers in Israel, the United States and other nations have made important advances in the rapidly-expanding field of "regenerative medicine," outlining for the first time connections in genetic regulation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2012
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Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have taken the first steps to create neural-like stem cells from muscle tissue in animals. Details of the work are published in two complementary studies published in the September ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 12, 2012
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Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2012
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