POSTS TAGGED AS regenerative medicine

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]

Growing New Vertebrae

In another example of 3-D printing, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina printed a scaffolding of an [MORE]

Growing New Tissues

Though the urethras of five boys were regrown from their own cells and implanted between 2004 and 2007, Anthony [MORE]

Stem Cells from Fat for Heart Repair

There may be one bright light in these obese times: fat contains about 200 times more progenitor cells than [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. (Irvine, [MORE]

Rutherford Procedure for Liver Regeneration

The Rutherford Procedure is a combination of proton beam irradiation (focused to destroy disease tissue inside the body with [MORE]

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

In a “world’s first” for primates, researchers at Keio University in Tokyo implanted induced pleuripotent stem cells (derived from [MORE]

Improving the Chances with in vitro Fertilization

By taking time-lapse pictures in dark-field microscopy, a team from Stanford University’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative [MORE]

mRNA-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, at UCSF, showed that only four proteins were required to reprogram fully developed somatic cells [MORE]

Fibronectin Material for Growing New Tissue

In experiments with rats, researchers at the University of Minnesota and Yale University have been able to strip away [MORE]

Growing Stronger Implants

“Regenerative medicine” brings to mind some razzle-dazzle visions, but it also holds advances in situations that seem quite conventional.  [MORE]

Tooth Regeneration

The dentist’s drill could go the way of the buggy whip if a new gel material used in bone [MORE]

First Custom-Fit, Degradable Bone Implant

Researchers at the University Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany have teamed up to create a [MORE]

Stem Cell Banking

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