Shorter stays in a skilled nursing facility tied to higher risk for readmission
High hospital readmission rates indicate that many elderly heart failure patients may be sent home too soon from skilled nursing ...
Tag: Transplantation
Transplanted bone marrow endothelial progenitor cells delay ALS disease progression
A new preclinical study finds that the regenerative cell therapy boosts motor neuron survival by repairing the blood-spinal cord barrierCredit: ...
3D printed tissues may keep athletes in action
Rice University bioengineers lead effort to print scaffolds to heal bone and cartilageCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 28, ...
Biomedical engineers grow cardiac patches to help people recover from heart attacks
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech A team led by Feng Zhao, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Technological University, recently ...
New approach for potential treatment of liver cancer patients with Hep B virus infection
New therapeutic approach points to potential treatment of liver cancer patients with Hepatitis B virus infectionCredit: Gastroenterology SINGAPORE, 27 March ...
$6.1 million in grants pave way for TGen-led studies of deadly lung diseases
50,000 US patients annually diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 27, 2019 -- The Translational Genomics Research ...
Early valve replacement versus watchful waiting in patients with severe aortic stenosis
Research shows greater survival benefit for patients treated within a year of diagnosisCredit: Elsevier, Annals of Thoracic Surgery Chicago, March ...
Harvard researchers’ immune-silent stem cell technology licensed to Sana Biotechnology
Developed through Harvard's Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, innovations could lead to novel cell therapies to treat diseaseCredit: Mary Todd Bergman, Harvard ...
Immune-repelling protein prolongs function, survival of human stem-cell-derived beta cells
Approach developed by Mass. General team may get around problems impeding the use of islet-cell transplants Encapsulating human stem-cell-derived beta ...
Squishing blood stem cells could facilitate harvest for transplants
Knockout of Ptpn21 alters deformabilityCredit: From Ni et al Cell Stem Cell (2019) Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory ...
New material will allow abandoning bone marrow transplantation
Credit: © Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" developed nanomaterial, which will be ...
Patients, family and donors invited to special bone marrow transplant event in Frankfurt, Germany
The 45th EBMT Annual Meeting will be held from March 24-27 in Frankfurt The 45th Annual Meeting of the European ...
Cell therapy could replace need for kidney transplants
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., -- March 13 2019, -- Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists are working on a promising ...
Antiviral therapy improves survival rates for kidney transplant recipients with hepatitis B or C
Large-scale study confirms antiviral therapy should be systematically offered to hepatitis B- and C-infected kidney transplant recipients, reported in the ...