Amway Artistry is launching a new type of cream that contains real 24-karat gold! The new Artistry cream claims able to "minimize the marks of aging on one’s appearance." In addition, the essence of cape jasmine plant stem cells, ...
A Chinese man has donated hemopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to a patient with blood disease in Malaysia. Lu, 22, from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, signed up to be a stem cell donor with the China Marrow Donor Program (CMDP) ...
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Blood-platelet shortages may become a thing of the past, according to scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The researchers have designed an industrial-strength bone marrow bioreactor that can generate human platelets in ...
Tags: Bioreactor, Health, Medicine
Dutch researchers are investigating a new method to produce synthetic meat without having to slaughter animals to cater to the demand for meat. In a paper published in Trends in Biotechnology's June issue, the researchers, Cor van der ...
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Stem cells could be future source for 'eco-friendly' meat, a study has found The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown from stem cells also holds potential as an ethical ...
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In a development that sounds as if it was lifted from the storyline of a vampire melodrama, a British research consortium has announced that it is well on its way to producing human blood on a scale that makes transfusions into real people ...
A new study describes the complexity of the new T cell repertoire following immune-depleting therapy to treat multiple sclerosis, improving our understanding of immune tolerance and clinical outcomes. In the Immune Tolerance Network's ...
Tags: Immune System Reconstitutes Itself, Immune-Depleting Therapy
A group of researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of Universit- de Montr-al discovered a promising new approach to treating leukemia by disarming a gene that is responsible for tumor progression. That ...
Tags: Immunology and Cancer(IRIC), Leukemia Treatment, Brg1 gene
Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 ...
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Advances in neonatal care for very preterm infants have greatly increased the chances of survival for these fragile infants. However, preterm infants have an increased risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a serious lung ...
Tags: Stem Cell, Preterm Infant, BPD, adverse effect
The technology of 3D 'bioprinting', the medical application of 3D printing to produce living tissue and organs, is advancing so quickly that it will spark a major ethical debate on its use by 2016, according to Gartner. At the same time, ...
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BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent Office for its ‘Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of CNS Diseases’ (serial number 12/994,761) patent application. This patent relates to ...
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German biotechnology company Miltenyi Biotec has received the US Food and Drug Administration's(FDA)approval for its CliniMACS CD34 reagent system to prevent graft-versus-host disease(GVHD)in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia(AML). ...
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In normal development, all cells turn off genes they don’t need, often by attaching a chemical methyl group to the DNA, a process called methylation. Historically, scientists believed methyl groups could only stick to a particular DNA ...
Tags: new gene control mechanism, nervous system disorder, health
U.S. researchers say they used epithelial stem cells to regenerate different cell types of human skin and hair follicles that may help those going bald. Dr. Xiaowei "George" Xu, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine ...