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CellNEWS-blogspot

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All about stem cells, cloning and regenerative medicine.

Added on: Jul 5th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: ZenMaster
Listed in: Medicine News & Media
Tags: science medicine stem cells cloning embryonic regenerative

Recent Posts

New Strategy for Mending Broken Hearts?

Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 22:42 in Heart, stem cells, mouse, embryonic, myoblasts

Patch created to repair damaged heart tissueWednesday, 14 October 2009By mimicking the way embryonic stem cells develop into heart muscle in a lab, Duke University bioengineers believe they have taken an important first step toward growing a living "...
Liver Cells Grown from Patients\' Skin Cells

Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 22:27 in stem cells, skin, us, Human, liver, ips

Treatment of liver diseases possibleWednesday, 14 October 2009Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases th...
Jumping Genes, Gene Loss and Genome Dark Matter

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 16:01 in research, dna, Human, genome, sequence, snps, chromosomes, cnv

New map of copy number variation in the human genome is a resource for human geneticsMonday, 12 October 2009In research published last week by Nature, an international team describes the finest map of changes to the structure of human genomes and a r...
Major Improvements Made in Engineering Heart Repair Patches from Stem Cells

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 15:45 in Heart, stem cells, us, blood vessel

Pre-formed blood vessels in patches connect to rodents' heart circulationMonday, 12 October 2009University of Washington (UW) researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for ...
Enhanced Stem Cells Promote Tissue Regeneration

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 15:37 in stem cells, research, regenerative

Enhanced Stem Cells Promote Tissue RegenerationMonday, 12 October 2009Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have boosted stem cells' ability to regenerate vascular tissue (such as blood vessels) by equipping them with genes that produce ext...
Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reverse Retinal Degeneration

Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 21:30 in stem cells, monkey, research, Human, embryonic, retina

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reverse Retinal DegenerationMonday, 12 October 2009A new study reports that transplanted pigment-containing visual cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) successfully preserved structure and function of the s...