April 2006 Archives
Australian Stem Cell Researchers Seeing Bone Repair Benefits
At the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia the Director Richard de Steiger has set into a patient's left thigh bone his own stem cells.
He inserted about 30 million stem cells into a cavity in Mr Stevens's left thigh bone, which then has been coated on with "scaffolding" made of bone-like material.
The stem cells that were used have been harvested from the patient's bone marrow during a biopsy about seven weeks earlier and cultured into bone-producing cells.
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Posted on April 7, 2006 07:28 PM | Comments (0)
Stem Cell Research To Help Athletes' Tendons and Ligaments
A new approach for tendon regeneration is is being announced in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Stem cell Researchers Prof. Dan Gazit is leading a team at the Skeletal Biotechnology Laboratory at the Hebrew University Faculty of Dental Medicine in Israel where they are developing procedures using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). These stem cells are found in the bone marrow as well fat tissues.
Gazit and his team have engineered these cells express a protein called Smad8 and another called BMP2.
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Posted on April 6, 2006 01:08 PM | Comments (0)
Targeting Cancer Related Stem Cells And Avoiding Healthy Cells
Go out of town for a bit, and the news keeps on rolling. I will try and do some catchup as I go ..
Howard Hughes Medical Institute is looking into the unique properties of stem cells that both cause normal blood cells to develop, and that also may cause leukemia.
Stem cell and cancer researchers are now saying that there is in fact a big dfferent between normal stem cells and the stem cells that develop into leukemia. Experiments using mice are showing that the stem cells that develop into leukemia can be killed by rapamycin, a drug has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
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Posted on April 6, 2006 12:58 PM | Comments (0)