Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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FAK Mediates the Activation of Cardiac Fibroblasts Induced by Mechanical Stress Through Regulation of the mTOR Complex.
Cardiovasc Res. 2009 Dec 28;
Authors: Costa AP, Clemente ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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Map4k4 negatively regulates PPAR{gamma} protein translation by suppressing the mTOR signaling pathway in cultured adipocytes.
J Biol Chem. 2009 Dec 28;
Authors: Guntur KV, Guilherme A, ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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mTOR binds to the promoters of RNA polymerase I- and III-transcribed genes.
Cell Cycle. 2010 Feb 7;9(5)
Authors: Tsang CK, Liu H, Zheng XF
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The mouse is a standard laboratory model organism, but there are currently few resources that describe conventional techniques to analyze blood and blood-forming tissues in this species. A newly released set of compact and easy-to-use laboratory resources from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press fills this gap...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Tissue-specific genes, thought to be dormant or not marked for activation in embryonic stem cells, are indeed marked by transcription factors, with proper marking potentially crucial for the function of tissues derived from stem cells...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The most widely used human embryonic stem cell lines lack genetic diversity, a finding that raises social justice questions that must be addressed to ensure that all sectors of society benefit from stem cell advances, according to a University of Michigan research team...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
In a developing animal, stem cells proliferate and differentiate to form the organs needed for life. A new study shows how a crucial step in this process happens and how a reversal of that step contributes to cancer. The study, led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Stem cells that could one day provide therapeutic options for muscle and bone disorders can be easily harvested from the tissue of the umbilical cord, just as the blood that goes through it provides precursor cells to treat some blood disorders, said University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers in ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that its Phase I trial to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) with its spinal cord stem cells has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The trial, which was approved by the FDA ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
"A year after Michigan voters approved the broader use of donated embryos for stem cell research, some state legislators are seeking to put limits on the science," a Detroit News editorial says...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) offers yet another medical breakthrough with the next-level stem cell treatment for critical limb ischemia patients. The stem cells aid in promoting angiogenesis or the formation of new blood vessels and providing support for the healing of damaged blood vessels...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Boston University School of Medicine's (BUSM) Pulmonary Center has received a two-year $1.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to derive stem cells and lung progenitors from patients with lung disease...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
A University of Maryland School of Medicine researcher will lead the coordinating center for a consortium of our nation's most prominent scientists in the field of stem cell research. Michael L. Terrin, M.D.,C.M.,M.P.H...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Source: American Heart AssociationDate: December 28, 2009Summary: DALLAS, — Heart tissue damage from chemotherapy drugs was reversed in rats by using their own cardiac stem cells (CSCs) that weren’t exposed to the cancer treatment. These cells reversed heart failure, according to a new study in Circulation: Journal of the ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Source: Scripps Research InstituteDate: December 29, 2009Summary:An international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells. The Scripps Research scientists initiated the study—published in the January 2010 edition of the prestigious journal Nature ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Scientists have developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells. The team's analysis of a variety of human embryonic stem cell lines currently in use in research laboratories around the world found that these cells originated largely from Caucasian and East Asian populations, with little representation ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
This shows some chromosomes that are all bunched up and are just pulled apart at the time of the cell division. Those chromosomes, as we now know, are made of DNA. But in essence what people had seen through the microscope was these chromosomes or colored things that they could ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Amazing research in to cord blood, found in baby's umbilical cords that can save lives due to the high number of stem cells it contains. Brilliant video from BBC show Life Blood. Watch more high quality videos on the Explore YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here: www.youtube.com ... BBC Life ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
In 1997, he was diagnosed with T-cell high grade non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage 1A. Fot 2 years, he was in and out of hospital undergoing chemotherapy. Despite all he endured, he suffered a relapse. He decided to opt for CA Care Therapy. He got better. Today, seven years later he remained ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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Multiple-turnover isotopic labeling of fmoc- and boc-protected amino acids with oxygen isotopes.
Org Lett. 2010 Jan 1;12(1):104-6
Authors: Seyfried MS, Lauber BS, Luedtke NW
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