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Scientists use stem cells to create HIV resistance
Yuet Wai Kan of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues have created HIV-resistant white blood cells by editing...
Researchers Discover New Form of Cancer
This is the story of two perfectly harmless genes. By themselves, PAX3 and MAML3 don’t cause any problems. However, when...
Experts unlock key to blood vessel repair
Scientists from the University of Leeds have found a way to restore the function of damaged blood vessel repairing cells,...
3-D Light-Sensitive Retina Made in the Lab
Using a type of human stem cell, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have created a three-dimensional complement of human retinal...
Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
In the first evidence of a natural intervention triggering stem cell-based regeneration of an organ or system, a study in...
Stem cells are a soft touch for nano-engineered biomaterials
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown that stem cell behaviour can be modified by manipulating the nanoscale...
Researchers pinpoint new role for enzyme in DNA repair, kidney cancer
Twelve years ago, UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Strahl, PhD, found that a protein called Set2 plays a role...
Compact and Extremely Small-Scale Incubator Microscope to Examine Cells in Time Lapse
Biologists and doctors rely heavily on incubators and microscopes. Now the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT has come up...
New Test Predicts If Breast Cancer Will Spread
The study was led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)─designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center of Albert Einstein College...
Researchers Find Mechanism that Forms Cell-to-Cell Catch Bonds
Certain bonds connecting biological cells get stronger when they’re tugged. Those bonds could help keep hearts together and pumping; breakdowns...
Study reveals rats show regret
New research from the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota reveals that rats show regret, a cognitive behavior...
Targeting Tumors Using Silver Nanoparticles
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a nanoparticle that has a couple of unique — and important — properties....
Immune therapy for advanced bladder cancer yields promising results
A multi-center phase I study using an investigational drug for advanced bladder cancer patients who did not respond to other...
Better Tissue Healing with Disappearing Hydrogels
When stem cells are used to regenerate bone tissue, many wind up migrating away from the repair site, which disrupts...
NIH releases bold and game-changing report calling for $4.5 billion in brain-research funding
Some news today about the federal BRAIN Initiative – a major research plan aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the...
Rhythmic brain activity used to track memories in progress
University of Oregon researchers have tapped the rhythm of memories as they occur in near real time in the human...
Herpesviren undercover
Pathogens entering our body only remain unnoticed for a short period. Within minutes our immune cells detect the invader and...
Prostate cancer biomarkers identified in seminal fluid
Improved diagnosis and management of one of the most common cancers in men – prostate cancer – could result from...
Liver Regeneration – ‘Switch’ Changes Cells Back
Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Boston Children's Hospital have new evidence in mice that it may be possible to...
Transplanted fetal stem cells for Parkinson’s show promise
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have found that fetal dopamine cells transplanted into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease...