Professor Alan Trounson heads the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which is advancing towards a cure for conditions including HIV and diabetes. He said if the trials were successful further research would be needed to modify the technology so it …
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a single protein molecule may hold the key to turning cardiac stem cells into blood vessels or muscle tissue, a finding that may lead to better ways to treat heart attack patients. Human heart …
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Researchers in Israel have achieved a significant global milestone in stem cell technology: they have created the first human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines that are free of animal contamination and whose production complies with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). The …
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“Hearing loss affects millions of people worldwide,” said Dr. Takayuki Nakagawa of the Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan. “Recent studies have indicated the potential of stem-cell based approaches for the regeneration of hair cells and …
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and an international team of researchers have generated a human model of Huntington’s disease—directly from the skin cells of patients with the disease. For years, scientists have studied Huntington’s disease primarily in post-mortem brain tissue …
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