Human stem cells have been regarded as a promising cell source for cardiac regeneration therapy. But their clinical use is hampered due to poor performance after transplantation into failing hearts. Recently, a stem cell ...
Mar 30, 2020
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New Curtin University-led research has discovered that using drugs to target a pathway in the body that causes cancerous cells to spread aggressively may help to reduce the severity of bladder cancer.
Oct 21, 2019
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Researchers in Japan have discovered that the Plasmodium parasites responsible for malaria rely on a human liver cell protein for their development into a form capable of infecting red blood cells and causing disease. The ...
Jun 12, 2019
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When cancer spreads to another organ, it most commonly moves to the liver, and now researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania say they know why. A new study, published today in Nature, shows ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Isolated human hepatocytes are essential tools in preclinical and clinical liver research, but cell quality is highly variable. Now, researchers from Uppsala University have devised a simple protocol that improves hepatocyte ...
Dec 21, 2018
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Hepatitis B is notoriously difficult to eradicate with currently available agents.. Now, in a new study, a novel form of "pegylated" interferon-β has reduced hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in experimental human-derived ...
Apr 3, 2017
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Scientists have greatly improved the usefulness of liver cell cultures by simulating the pressure that the liver undergoes in the body. The scientists, led by Hanry Yu of the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, ...
Mar 22, 2017
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In cases of severe ocular trauma involving the cornea, wound healing occurs following intervention, but at the cost of opaque scar tissue formation and damaged vision. Recent research has shown that mesenchymal stem cells ...
Sep 29, 2016
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In new research appearing in the prestigious journal Nature Biotechnology, an international research team led by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem describes a new technique for growing human hepatocytes in the laboratory. ...
Nov 26, 2015
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The mechanisms that allow the liver to repair and regenerate itself have long been a matter of debate. Now researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a population of liver cells ...
Aug 13, 2015
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