POSTS TAGGED AS regenerative medicine

Stem Cell-Derived Pituitary Gland

This is one of those things that is almost inconceivable until it happens: scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental [MORE]

Medicine in the year 2060

Physicist Michio Kaku predicts how today’s breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare-organ regeneration, nanoparticle drug delivery, implantable robots, “smart” bathrooms, [MORE]

Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think

Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem cells into [MORE]

Hydrogel Scaffold for Burn Healing

Johns Hopkins University researchers intended to design a hydrogel loaded with stem cells to promote wound healing, but their [MORE]

Personal Stem Cell Banking

Stem cells grow when they attach to a collagen scaffold known as the extracellular matrix (ECM).  Generally, when this [MORE]

Viruses as Tissue Scaffold

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a process of assembling bacteriophage on glass to create scaffolds [MORE]

Programmable, Patient-Specific Bandages

Bioengineering professor Elizabeth Loboa, at North Carolina State University, aims to create wound healing bandages from hollow, [MORE]

Synthetic Trachea Implanted

Two months ago, a clinical team at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm implanted a synthetic trachea in a 36 [MORE]

New Technique for Engineering Dopaminergic Neurons

Italian researchers at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan) have reported their success in transforming human skin cells into functional [MORE]

Hair Restoration Robot

Hair restoration is a cosmetic procedure, but in a sense it borders on regenerative medicine, similar to a transplant [MORE]

Ontario Stem Cell Initiative

With support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, Ontario Innovation Trust, and the Center for [MORE]

Review of Stem Cell Technology

This piece references an article the excellent science writer Stephen Hall published in Scientific American last March, which gives [MORE]

Bioengineered Voicebox

Several research groups around the world have now removed cells from cadaver organs, reseeded the remaining protein scaffolding with [MORE]

iPSC’s Function as Primary Hepatocytes

Yoon-Young Jang, MD and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center recently reported that induced pluripotent stem cells, [MORE]

Stem Cell Breakthrough

One of the mysteries of stem cells is how they proliferate without differentiating. Researchers at the Gladstone Institute (San [MORE]

Regenerative Medicine: Wound Healing

Regenerative medicine doesn’t always imply stem cell technologies. Researchers at Tufts University have found that synthesized peptides, based on [MORE]

Regenerative Drug Discovery Lab

This piece has two stories in one-the first about combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening, and the second about technology [MORE]

Growing Retinas in vitro

This is exciting news even if you’re not concerned with retinal degeneration-researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, [MORE]

Molecular Key to Hematopoiesis

Investigators at Australia’s oldest medical research facility-the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (founded in 1915)-have added new knowledge about [MORE]

3-D Printing of Implants

Within is a British company (London, UK) that manufactures medical implants (artificial fingers, acetabular cups, spinal fusion devices) by [MORE]