The newly sequenced Canada lynx genome has already offered hints of how the North American wildcat might adapt — or not — to climate change, researchers say. Keith Williams/Flickr https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/28/991474676/25-down-and-71-632-to-go-scientists-seek-genomes-of-all-critters-with-a-backbone
Video shows a field of cells firing in a wave from left to right. Black dots are electrodes recording simultaneous electrical signals. Video credit: Daniel Palanker, Ph.D., Stanford University. [1] […]
Scarring is not merely a cosmetic issue: Scar tissue has no hair follicles and no sweat glands and is inflexible and weaker than skin. BLACKDAY/Shutterstock.com http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/04/drug-enables-healing-without-scarring.html
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3D-model of DNA. Credit: Michael Ströck/Wikimedia/ GNU Free Documentation License https://phys.org/news/2021-04-crispr-retrons.html
Click on the image to watch a video of a swarm of living robots swimming through water (time lapse). Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman https://www.signalsblog.ca/regenerative-medicine-news-under-the-microscope-april-2021/
Values are from table S1, the derivation of which is discussed in the supplementary materials.
Medeus clinic in the Ukraine to sell CRISPR enhancements for customers? Screenshot from their YouTube video. https://ipscell.com/2021/04/ukraine-clinic-to-sell-crispr-genetic-enhancements-hair-color-skin-breast-size/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new-post-from-the-niche_11
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash https://www.studyfinds.org/covid-alters-genes-long-haulers/
The dental pulp and periodontium are susceptible to caries and periodontitis and contain stem cells that have great regenerative potential. (Image: istock.com/Bojan89) https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2021/Tooth-Altlas.html
British biotech company Oxitec is releasing thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the population of disease carrying mosquitoes in Florida. Alamy Stock Photo; Reuters (inset) https://nypost.com/2021/04/27/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-being-released-in-florida/
What is stem cell culture? Hypoxic culture? Why should you care? Let’s dig in. https://regenexx.com/blog/what-is-hypoxic-culture-what-does-it-do/?utm_source=infusionsoft&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyblog
Schematic illustrating small molecules interacting with muscle stem cells. Li laboratory at UCLA https://www.newswise.com/articles/chemical-cocktail-activates-stem-cells-promotes-repair-after-muscle-damage
IMAGE: THIS PICTURE SHOWS THE WING IMAGINAL DISC OF FRUIT FLY. GREEN CELLS ARE LIVE AND PROLIFERATING CELLS THAT EXPRESS AN ONCOGENE SRC. MAGENTA CELLS ARE DYING CELLS DUE TO […]
Image Description: Microscope images showing brain tissue that has been damaged by white matter stroke (left) and then repaired by the new glial cell therapy (right). Myelin (seen in red)…more […]
A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence — and then reverse the changes. Credit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead Institute […]
By: Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/advancing-development-safe-and-effective-regenerative-medicine-products
Floridians, however, are calling on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end ‘this live experiment’ saying they are being subjected to terrorism by the FKMCD. The trial is set […]
This electron microscope image of the new “scaffolding” for growing and implanting retinal cells shows the ice cube tray-shaped reservoirs that hold cells and cylinder-shaped holes in the bottom… more […]
Dr Kazu Kikuchi discovered the switch that causes heart cells to heal themselves. https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2021/04/14/heart-healing-switch-fish/
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-bioprinted-mini-pancreas-diabetes.html
Credit: AlphaMed Press https://scienmag.com/magnetic-guidance-improves-stem-cells-ability-to-treat-occupational-lung-disease/
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Stem cell colony (Noelle Germain/UConn Phot) https://www.miragenews.com/stem-cell-and-genome-editing-core-merger-547262/
Fetal brain tissue is used in research on Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/biden-administration-scraps-human-fetal-tissue-research-restrictions
The world’s biggest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii, is a parasite that spends much of its life inside its vine hosts. New genomic work suggests that the parasites in this group of […]
