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Regenerating Tooth Growth

Anti–USAG-1 therapy for tooth regeneration through enhanced BMP signaling
“Uterine sensitization–associated gene-1 (USAG-1) deficiency leads to enhanced bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) [MORE]

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and an NIR Laser

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and an NIR Laser
Japanese scientists have used lipid coated gold nanorods to deliver a [MORE]

Tooth Regeneration

Tooth regeneration in mice
Rare genetic disorders can cause the failure of a few teeth to develop (hypodontia), many (oligodontia) or [MORE]

Terahertz Light Changes Gene Expression

Terahertz Waves Control Gene Expression
Japanese scientists have found that terahertz radiation, unlike ultraviolet or infrared light, can alter gene expression [MORE]

First Implant of Lab Grown Heart Cells into a Human Patient

iPS-derived cardiomyocytes
“In what is a world-first and potentially the dawn of a new medical technology to treat damaged hearts, scientists [MORE]

iPSC Transplanted into Parkinson’s Patient

Neurons
Last October, Japanese neuroscientists implanted induced pluripotent stem cells into a Parkinson’s patient.  As described: “Kyoto University stem cell researcher [MORE]

Turbulence Propels Stem Cells into Platelets

Turbulence activates platelets
In this case, the “martini” is both shaken and stirred.  Japanese stem cell scientists that “turbulence” in a [MORE]

Lower Cost Stem Cell Culturing

Koyoto AKIT Culture
A research collaboration headed at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell Material Science has developed a stem cell [MORE]

The Integrated Heart/Cancer “Body-on-a Chip”

Body on a Chip
Engineers at the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences have created a microfluidic “body-on-a-chip device for [MORE]

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and a NIR Laser

Gold Nanorods
Japanese scientists have used lipid coated gold nanorods to deliver a gene vector, which when heated with a near [MORE]

Nanofiber Matrix for Culturing Human Stem Cells

Three Dimensional Stem Cell Growth
Most tissue culturing of pluripotent stem cells is done in petri dishes which distorts the shape [MORE]

Sensing Heartbeat with Radar

Remote Sensing ECG
Today, ECG testing is done with electrodes stuck to the skin and wires from those patches to the [MORE]

3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant

Living Donor Lung Transplant – 3D Printing
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D [MORE]

Stem Cell Banking

The one hundred or so genes on Chromosome 6 that make up the Major Histocompatibility Complex govern the cell [MORE]