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For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

Mr Blair also used his trip to California to woo researchers in stem cell science to come to the UK, after Mr Bush used his first presidential veto to block the further expansion of federal investment in this area of research.

The researchers then used genetic techniques to find out what would happen when NAD manufacturing is turned off in the adult neural stem cells of the mouse brain.

In a study in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beats.

Instead, after several days, researchers harvest embryonic stem cells, which theoretically can develop into any type of cell and, according to many researchers, may someday be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or other conditions.

Researchers used stem cells to create retinal pigment epithelium cells, which were transplanted into a patient's retina (left) in an area depicted by the black circle.

To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.

A clinic in India says it has used stem cells to treat Down's syndrome in up to 14 people, but the announcement has alarmed independent researchers

Researchers at the University of Washington and elsewhere are using stem cells to trigger the growth of these cells, which stop regenerating in mammals after birth.

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center are exploring a new therapy using stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries within the first 14 to 30 days of injury.

Researchers at Geron, meanwhile, had successfully derived neurons from human embryonic stem cells and were pursuing research that would eventually look to repair the damage caused by spinal - cord injuries, a possible use for embryonic stem cells that was much touted at the time.

Across multiple samples using a stiff matrix, while varying the degree of tethering, the researchers found no difference in the rate at which stem cells showed signs of turning into bone - like cells.

A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

In the future the researchers see using stem cells taken from patients to grow new bones.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

The researchers used several measures to determine whether the stem cells were effective in alleviating neuropathic pain and bladder dysfunction at six months.

Among the many approaches they took, the researchers generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from the SCARB1 - deficient person, used them to create liver cells, and showed these new cells had profound reduction in their ability to take up HDL.

The French researchers hope that using freshly created blood cells made from stem cells could help alleviate those iron buildup concerns.

The researchers used chemicals to transform these cells into cells that were similar to stem cells.

Researchers, led by Joshua Mayourian at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used mathematical modeling to simulate electrical interactions between these stem cells and heart cells to develop insight into possible adverse effects, as well as to hypothesize new methods for reducing some potential risks of this therapy.

Realistic stem cell therapies to replace diseased or damaged tissue may still be years away, but researchers have uncovered a promising new use for these undifferentiated cells: they can be programmed to become patient - specific laboratory models of inherited liver disease.

In a study recently published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, HSCI researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, have developed a non-toxic transplantation procedure using antibodies to specifically target blood stem cells in mice, an approach they hope will make blood stem cell transplants for these patients far less toxic.

«Researchers use a single molecule to command stem cells to build new bone.»

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The therapeutic use of stem cells is a promising area of medicine for the decades ahead and researchers are examining why stem cells function in certain types of niches, microenvironments, and pockets of activity.

The researchers have now reported in the journal Nature that the normal process of blood formation differs from what scientists had previously assumed when using data from stem cell transplantations.

By monitoring stem cell differentiation on gels that mimic the stiffness and nanofibrous structure of biological tissue, researchers have identified the specific molecules that stem cells use when selecting bone and cartilage fates.

Mayo Clinic researchers have found a way to resynchronize cardiac motion following a heart attack using stem cells.

Using tumor samples from the Women's Healthy Eating and Living clinical trial, researchers identified stem - like tumor cells as being characterized by low levels of the molecule p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA).

An international group of leading stem cell researchers has issued a statement that specifies concerns about the development and use of unproven stem cell therapies.

Rare stem - like tumor cells play a critical role in the spread of breast cancer, but a vulnerability in the pathway that powers them offers a strategy to target these cells using existing drugs before metastatic disease occurs, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers.

That message, delivered in two studies published today, is both good news and bad news for researchers who hope to use so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) to study diseases and perhaps some day treat patients.

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

Instead of using white blood cells, the British researchers, working with a Dutch group, want to take stem cells from bone marrow and insert the ADA gene into these.

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.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

Yoshida sees this tool as remarkably simple and something that can be used by stem cell researchers studying any organ.

During the last decade, some researchers have claimed that primordial follicles in adult mouse ovaries turn over and that females use adult germ - line stem cells to constantly resupply the follicle pool and sustain ovulation.

And in the third paper, published online today in Science, developmental biologists and stem cell researchers Hugo Snippert, Arnout Schepers, Hans Clevers, and their colleagues at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, used mice with multicolored intestines to look at the kinds of cells that form intestinal adenomas, a precursor to intestinal cancer.

While American stem cell researchers were celebrating the final NIH stem cell guidelines, questions remain, particularly whether the National Institutes of Health will approve existing lines in time for use with stimulus funds.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

Stem cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

This ball of cells contains «pluripotent stem cells» — blank slates that can be programed into any type of cell in the body — and researchers are hoping to use these stem cells to treat various conditions, including infertility.

She adds that researchers may be able to recreate the results using adult stem cells or cells found in wisdom teeth.

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.

The researchers, who released their findings in Cancer Prevention Research Journal, published by the American Association of Cancer Research, used a visualization technique — immunofluorescence — to identify stem cells in the colon of pigs that were fed either a high calorie diet or a standard diet.

Last January, the House of Representatives voted, 253 to 174, to pass a bill, H.R. 3, that would allow researchers to use leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, and in April, the Senate passed its version of the bill.

That fraction might seem low, but it shows that the technique could be used as a model for therapies that replace beta cells in people, the researchers suggest February 18 in Cell Stem Cell.

Today the brain's serotonin system is already a known target for the treatment of depression, and according to researchers it should be possible to use time signals in pharmaceutical development based on stem cells.