July 7, 2016 — As a result of the 'graying of the biomedical workforce' in the United States, many suspect that a preference for older, more experienced researchers in the competitive government grant ...
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June 29, 2016 — Researchers have established an in vitro model system for investigating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), also called steatosis, is a dramatically ...
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June 24, 2016 — For the first time in human application, researchers successfully closed an open wound on the upper chest caused by postoperative complications of lung removal. The protocol and approach were based ...
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June 24, 2016 — Scientists have discovered why acute leukemias with the same genetic abnormality vary in their aggressiveness based on their cellular origin. They found that the cancer inducing alteration is ...
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June 24, 2016 — Scientists have provided evidence that a widely used chemical is more toxic to certain blood cell precursors in the bone marrow than to ...
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June 23, 2016 — A study has uncovered the genetic mechanism for how acute myeloid leukemia cells with a specific DNA mutation stay as undifferentiated cells, rather than maturing into healthy blood ...
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June 22, 2016 — Most pregnant women with well-controlled diabetes give birth to healthy children. But their babies run much higher risks of birth defects than babies born to women without diabetes, because very ...
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June 17, 2016 — Modified gold nanoparticles can be used to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone, researchers have ...
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June 17, 2016 — Here's another reason why you should hit the gym regularly as you grow older: a new report shows that regular exercise plays a critical role in helping muscles repair themselves as quickly as ...
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June 16, 2016 — A new procedure may revolutionize the culturing of adult stem cells. The approach has successfully generated and expanded airway stem cells from the sorts of samples collected during routine ...
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June 16, 2016 — Naked mole-rats (NMR) are the longest-living rodent species and exhibit extraordinary resistance to cancer. A research team has now found the induced pluripotent stem cells derived from NMR to be ...
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June 15, 2016 — Scientists can interfere with sperm production in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni by blocking expression of the Nuclear Factor Y-B gene ...
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June 15, 2016 — A team of researchers has helped identify key characteristics that distinguish reserve stem cells from other stem cell populations that had been purported to have similar properties. The work, which ...
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June 13, 2016 — A gene called Prkci can point cells in the right direction, according to a new study that demonstrated Prkci's role in organizing cells into balls and tubes during early embryo and organ ...
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June 12, 2016 — In a randomized Phase III study of the drug inotuzumab ozogamicin, a statistically significant percentage of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) whose disease had relapsed following ...
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June 10, 2016 — Researchers have concluded that reprogramming does not create differences between reprogrammed and embryonic stem ...
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June 9, 2016 — Cancer stem cells are like zombies -- even after a tumor is destroyed, they can keep coming back. These cells have an unlimited capacity to regenerate themselves, making more cancer stem cells and ...
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June 9, 2016 — As the promise of using regenerative stem cell therapies draws closer, a consortium of biomedical scientists reports about 30 percent of induced pluripotent stem cells they analyzed from 10 research ...
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June 9, 2016 — New techniques to assess the fate of stem cells in vivo have now been developed by ...
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June 8, 2016 — A researcher working to create tissue that can replace or protect damaged muscle after a heart attack shares his plans to bioengineer heart tissue ...
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