The finding could fundamentally change how we look at human
stem cell tech: If chimeric monkeys require totipotent cells before they can come into being, it stands to reason that human embryonic stem cell therapy might also require totipotent stem cells to render cures.
To the religious who oppose stem cell research: It seems
stem cell tech might be able to help cure some forms of blindness.
Not exact matches
«One of the major advantages, in a practical sense, is that we are using much less growth factor,» said McDevitt, who is also director of the
Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia
Tech.
Georgia
Tech / Emory University Associate Professor Todd McDevitt and graduate student Anh Nguyen make microparticles to be used for delivering growth factors to
stem cells.
«Previous studies have shown that a threshold percentage of limbal
stem cells (which are responsible for replenishing the cornea) is required for successful corneal autologous therapy,» says co-first author Tom Bongiorno, a graduate student in bioengineering at Georgia
Tech.
To address this problem, Bongiorno and senior study author Todd Sulchek, an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia
Tech, set out to identify biomechanical properties that could be used as a faster, cheaper alternative to enrich for
stem cells.
Researchers at Emory and Georgia
Tech have developed a method for Cheap Oakleys purifying cardiac muscle
cells from
stem cell cultures using molecular beacons.
This research was supported by the NIH (R01 AR062368, R01 AR062920 to A.J.G and R01 DK055679, R01 DK059888, DK055679, DK059888, and DK089763 to A.N.), and J.R.S. is supported by the Intestinal
Stem Cell Consortium (U01DK103141), a collaborative research project funded by the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and by the NIAID Novel, Alternative Model Systems for Enteric Diseases (NAMSED) consortium (U19AI116482), PHS Grant UL1TR000454 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, and a seed grant from the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Research Center between Emory University, Georgia
Tech and the University of Georgia.
That's not about
stem cells, but it is high -
tech science.
UCSB's reputation as a high -
tech Mecca was reinforced with the appointment - however part - time - of
stem -
cell guru Jamie Thomson.
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With massive amounts of data and information at our fingertips in an increasingly high -
tech world, wearable technology for monitoring pet health and
stem cell therapy that promises great things for the veterinary community and for pet owners are three such trends to follow.
A med -
tech startup has developed a fast and easy way to treat certain burn wounds with
stem cells.