Not exact matches
Speaking to
Regeneration & Renewal, Miliband says: «I think that the advantage
of the
new Office
of the Third Sector is that, whether you are a social enterprise or you are a small community group, you are going to have a voice at the
heart of government.»
Yin noted that with a better understanding
of the genetic underpinnings that lead to tissue
regeneration, he and his team may be able to develop
new drug candidates that control the activity
of the genetic circuits and repair damaged
hearts.
Scientists at the Bar Harbor - based MDI Biological Laboratory have been awarded a patent — the first for the lab — for MSI - 1436, a potential
new heart disease drug that stimulates the repair and
regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries and
heart attacks.
By stimulating the growth
of new blood vessels, promoting anti-inflammatory effects, recruiting cells toward tissue
regeneration and inhibiting further cell death, adult stem cells can restore some function to damaged or diseased
heart muscle.
The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as
hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a
new study
of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion
of regeneration.
The research lines
of the Bakkers group include unraveling the genetics
of normal cardiac development and body axis formation during development, investigating the molecular mechanisms
of heart regeneration in the zebrafish and how this can be compared to
heart injury in the mammals, and modeling
of human (cardiac) disease in the zebrafish to unravel biological mechanisms behind the disease and to identify
new drug targets.