A research breakthrough has proven that it is possible to reprogram mature cells from human skin directly into brain cells, without passing through the stem cell stage. The unexpectedly simple technique involves activating ...
Biotechnology
Jun 9, 2011
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Brazilian researchers, reporting in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (20:3), discovered difficulties in establishing a genetically diverse line of human embryonic stem cells (hES) to serve the therapeutic stem cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been a given that adult humans -- and mammals in general -- lack the capacity to grow new nephrons, the kidney?s delicate blood filtering tubules, which has meant that dialysis, and ultimately ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2011
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have identified a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the January issue of Cell Stem Cell, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Numerous patients suffering from chronic liver diseases are currently receiving inadequate treatment due to the lack of organs donated for transplantation. However, hepatocytes derived from induced pluripotent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 4, 2011
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For the first time, scientists have created functioning human intestinal tissue in the laboratory from pluripotent stem cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2010
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When researchers tested three different labeling agents on three different stem cell populations to determine what effect the labeling agents had on stem cell phenotype, biological behavior and migration abilities, they found ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2010
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Two research teams from the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine (Okayama, Japan) have reported breakthrough studies in liver cell transplantation. One team found that the technical breakthrough in creating induced ...
Biotechnology
Oct 18, 2010
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One of the major challenges in stem cell transplants is how to obtain sufficient numbers of these remarkably rare cells to put into patients. To help overcome this issue, research from the Centenary Institute, Royal Prince ...
Biotechnology
Oct 3, 2010
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found a new way to make beating heart cells from the body's own cells that could help regenerate damaged hearts. Over 5 million Americans suffer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 5, 2010
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