Category Archives: Stem Cells

Every 20 seconds a person in the United States has a heart attack, causing heart cells to die and leaving the vital organ weak. There's currently no way to reverse the damage, but doctors think the secret may lie within … Continue reading →

When a person suffers a heart attack, scar tissue forms over the damaged areas of the heart, reducing the organ’s function. However, in a recent study, scientists successfully turned this scar tissue into working heart muscle without the use of … Continue reading →

Singapore, April 20, 2012 – Could engineered human stem cells hold the key to cancer survival?Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8

Singapore, Apr 20, 2012 – (ACN Newswire) – Could engineered human stem cells hold the key to cancer survival?Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8

The University of Michigan’s second human embryonic stem cell line has just been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s registry, making the cells available for federally-funded research. (2012-04-26)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

A one-inch long grasshopper can leap a distance of about 20 inches. Cicadas can produce sound at about the same frequency as radio waves. Fleas measuring only millimeters can jump an astonishing 100 times their height in microseconds. (2012-04-27)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world’s largest professional society committed to the study and treatment of blood disorders, today issued a report urging federal agencies to coordinate hematology research funding around seven specific high-need areas that would produce … Continue reading →

A single gene that promotes initial development of the most common form of lung cancer and its lethal metastases has been identified by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. (2012-04-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have demonstrated, in a study to be published online April 24 in Stroke, that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increasing the generation of new nerve … Continue reading →

Scientists from The Danish Stem Cell Center (DanStem) at the University of Copenhagen and Hagedorn Research Institute have gained new insight into the signaling paths that control the body’s insulin production. (2012-04-26)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has created a microfluidic device that can harvest rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood to enable their expansion in culture for … Continue reading →

An award-winning research project, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), has tested a new imaging method which could help improve how doctors predict a patient’s risk of having a heart attack. (2012-04-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

For many people with gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn and regurgitation of food or sour liquid characteristic of the disorder. (2012-04-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have shown that overactivation of the RANK signalling pathway promotes the initiation, progression and metastasis of tumours in human breast epithelial cells by dedifferentiation of breast cells to stem cells. (2012-04-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

Although people generally talk about “cancer”, it is clear that the disease occurs in a bewildering variety of forms. Even single groups of cancers, such as those of the white blood cells, may show widely differing properties. (2012-04-25)Source:http://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Stem_Cells

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions have identified two distinguishable groups of genes: those that produce very abundant biochemical products in the cell and function properly in the majority of biological processes, and a flexible subset … Continue reading →

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA– – VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. , a biotechnology company applying stem cell technology for drug rescue and cell therapy, has licensed breakthrough stem cell culture technology …Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=Stem+Cell+therapy&ei=UTF-8

Oakland Raiders linebacker Rolando McClain turned to an experimental form of therapy to handle the aches and pains that come with being a pro football player, the Mobile Press-Register reported Sunday.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=Stem+Cell+therapy&ei=UTF-8

The $3 billion California stem cell agency, which is moving to engage the biotech industry ever more closely, is proposing a major weakening of the financial disclosure requirements for its board of directors and executives. The move comes as the … Continue reading →

On April 24, the California Stem Cell Report asked the state stem cell agency about its proposed changes in its requirements for financial disclosures from its officials. Here are the key elements from that query with the stem cell agency’s … Continue reading →