Sentences with phrase «new stem cells study»

Now, a new STEM CELLS study from the labs of Qing - Ling Fu (Sun Yat - sen University, Guangzhou) and Zhongquan Qi (Xiamen University, Fujian, PR China) has described the effect of iPSC - MSCs on immune T cells in a relevant in vivo mouse model.

Not exact matches

February 2, 2017 By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

But the new study, in Cell Stem Cell, injected human cells into newborn mice, not embryos.

«We have confirmed what earlier studies indicated, and gained new knowledge about molecular characteristics of these neural stem cells,» says Milos Pekny, professor at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology.

Although liver cells created from induced pluripotent stem cells reflect the defects of their source, they may offer a new tool to study inherited disorders

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embstem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embcell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embStem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embCell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embstem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

«This new study uncovers for the first time the dynamic of stem cells during wound healing and identifies new molecular players associated with skin regeneration.

Now, in a new study published today, Sept. 8, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison has added a new wrinkle to the cell differentiation equation, showing that the stiffness of the surfaces on which stem cells are grown can exert a profound influence on cell fate.

New treatments for spinal cord injury, including stem cells, gene therapy and electrical stimulation, are being studied.

He says the structure could also offer a new way of studying blood stem cells and how blood disorders arise.

We believe that they will also lead to the development of a whole new range of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system,» explains corresponding author of the study Jihwan Song, professor and director of Neural Regeneration and Therapy Group at the CHA Stem Cell Institute of CHA University.

The study «provided the surprising result that one new therapy currently being explored to lower insulin resistance promotes, rather than decreases, the formation of bone in mice,» says Darwin Prockop, a stem cell researcher at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Temple, who was not involved in the work.

A new study has found that stem cell therapy can reduce lung inflammation in an animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.

«Blood stem cells study could pave the way for new cancer therapy.»

This study provides a new mathematical model that could be incorporated into future computational studies on mesenchymal stem cells.

The new rules state that stem cells can be used if they are part of a study approved by the federal government, or if the protocol has been approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that provides ethical review for research involving human volunteers.

Sheng Ding, PhD, a senior investigator in the Roddenberry Stem Cell Center at Gladstone and co-senior author on the study, adds, «This new cellular reprogramming and expansion paradigm is more sustainable and scalable than previous methods.

«Certainly, this is a landmark study,» says Dietrich Egli, a stem - cell scientist at the New York Stem Cell Foundatstem - cell scientist at the New York Stem Cell Foundatcell scientist at the New York Stem Cell FoundatStem Cell FoundatCell Foundation.

In the new study, the researchers instead started with human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Last week, scientists at Harvard University and Columbia University announced that they had proved the viability of a new way to study a disease — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — by reprogramming cells from a patient to become pluripotent stem cells, which can then become any type of cell or tissue.

The study was supported by a Science of Human Appearance Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and by grants from the Medical Research Council of the UK, the Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM), and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in the UK (BBSRC), as well as earlier support from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.

The new study, published in March in Cell Stem Cell, tested this hypothesis.

And the setback followed a major stem cell scandal in which biologist Haruko Obokata of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology was found to have falsified data in studies, published in 2014, that claimed a new method of achieving pluripotency.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

Researchers have developed a new way to study bone disorders and bone growth, using stem cells from patients afflicted with a rare, genetic bone disease.

In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle, working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted human stem cells to an avulsion injury in mice with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.

«Investigators create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from adults: New technique offers model for studying disease, progress toward cell therapy.»

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

In a new study published in Science, the laboratory of Sebastian Jessberger, professor in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich, has shown for the first time the process by which neural stem cells divide and newborn neurons integrate in the adult mouse hippocampus.

In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)- led researchers investigated photodynamic detection of cancer stem cells in a glioma cell line, a model of a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.

The study, which was led by postdoc Gregor Pilz and PhD student Sara Bottes, used in vivo 2 - photon imaging and genetic labeling of neural stem cells in order to observe stem cell divisions as they happened, and to follow the maturation of new nerve cells for up to two months.

The study developed a new in vitro system made from bone marrow stem cells and studied what would happen if its ambient temperature fell below 37 °C (the natural temperature of the human body).

In the new study, Lipton and his colleagues used human stem cell and mouse models to show exactly how SNO can trigger cell death in Parkinson's disease.

A new study, however, provides insights on the cellular mechanisms that might be targeted to help certain stem cells - called human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs)- maintain properties needed to make them clinically useful.

In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have investigated the number of mutations that accumulate in the muscle's stem cells (satellite cells).

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a stem cell disease: Study paves the way for new treatments for devastating genetic disease.»

A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows how an unexpectedly high number of mutations in the stem cells of muscles impair cell regeneration.

A study published in Cell last year demonstrated that human and rat stem cells could be grafted onto the spinal cord of paralyzed rats, forming new nerves capable of communicating across the injury site.

While further research is needed to understand the effectiveness of H1.0 protein in preventing the spread of cancer growth, this research advances significantly the study of the mechanisms of cancer stem cells and the relatively new epigenetic approach to cancer research.

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

A new study in mice published in The Journal of Neuroscience details a potential therapeutic strategy that uses stem cells to promote recovery of motor activity after spinal cord injury.

In the new study, the researchers cultured mouse skin - cancer colonies on various 2 - D and 3 - D environments of different shapes and patterns to see if the tumor shape contributes to activation of cancer stem cells, and to see where in the tumor the stem cells appeared.

Chien agrees that basic stem cell biology has not kept pace with clinical studies, but he says there is a compelling need for new treatments.

But Hochedlinger, whose group's paper appears in a new journal called Cell Stem Cell, stresses that researchers still need to study human cells to learn how to reprogram them and have no idea yet which approach would work better in the long run.

«The studies seem carefully done to me,» says stem cell biologist Sean Morrison of the University of Michigan Medical School, who has not studied the new paper.

«New tools to study the origin of embryonic stem cells.»

A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life - threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the journal Lancet Haematology and in print in the January issue.

«The induced pluripotent stem cells we used in this study proved to be extremely useful in disease modelling, and they could offer an excellent platform for drug discovery and testing new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease in the future,» says Early Stage Researcher Minna Oksanen, the lead author of the study.