This record-breaking baby is 27 years old — 2 years younger than her mom
Molly Everette Gibson. Haleigh Crabtree Photography https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/baby-is-27-years-old-just-two-years-younger-than-her-mom/
Tag Archives: Regenerative Medicine
Researchers Find Stem Cells That Help Nail Regeneration
Normal function helps with growth, but if nail is damaged, cells focus on repair Credit: HealthDay https://www.newsday.com/news/health/researchers-find-stem-cells-that-help-nails-regenerate-1.9648931
Eat Just to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore after gaining ‘world first’ regulatory approval
Image Credits: Eat Just https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/01/eat-just-to-sell-lab-grown-meat-in-singapore-after-gaining-world-first-regulatory-approval/
Freezing bodies for ‘reanimation’ in China and why the country’s cryonics tech has the potential to leapfrog the West
Telomere shortening protects against cancer
Human telomeres (green) at the ends of chromosomes (blue). Credit: Rockefeller University https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-telomere-shortening-cancer.html
Patient-specific airway stem cells developed to model lung diseases
Stem Cell Medical Research to Expand in California Following Passage of Prop. 14
A stem cell research center at UC Davis. Courtesy California Institute for Regenerative Medicine https://timesofsandiego.com/tech/2020/11/27/stem-cell-medical-research-to-expand-in-california-following-passage-of-prop-14/
This matrix delivers healing stem cells to injured elderly muscles
Hydrogel delivered stem cells called muscle satellite cells integrate in new muscle strands, green, along with existing muscle tissue, in red. Yellow strands may be strands made of existing muscle […]
‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures
Structures of a protein that were predicted by artificial intelligence (blue) and experimentally determined (green) match almost perfectly. DEEPMIND https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-triumphs-solving-protein-structures
The next decade in science
Wyss Institute researchers predict the biggest scientific advances of the 2020s https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/wyss-researchers-predict-biggest-scientific-advances-of-2020s/
Boosting stem cell activity can enhance immunotherapy benefits
Samir N. Khleif, MD https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/news-release/boosting-stem-cell-activity-can-enhance-immunotherapy-benefits/
Meet a Stem Cell Patient on the Front Lines for Finding an HIV Cure
Regenerative drug summons stem cells for inflammation-free healing
Neural stem cells maturing into brain cells in miceSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute https://newatlas.com/medical/regenerative-drug-stem-cells-without-inflammation/
Canadian Blood Services: Only half of donors follow through with stem cell transplants
A bag of blood is shown at a clinic in Montreal on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS) https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-blood-services-only-half-of-donors-follow-through-with-stem-cell-transplants-1.5203297
Exposure to Outer Space May Accelerate Aging, New Evidence Suggests
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren struggling to contain fruit that arrived on the ISS on August 25, 2015. Lindgren was one of 10 astronauts included in a new study looking into […]
Revolutionary CRISPR-based genome editing system treatment destroys cancer cells
Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-revolutionary-crispr-based-genome-treatment-cancer.amp
Is Injecting the Bone in Knee Arthritis the New Standard?
New research underscores the link between multiple sclerosis and the gut microbiome
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a B cell from a human donor. NIAID/NIH https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/20/multiple-sclerosis-gut-microbiome-link/
Scientists successfully reverse human aging process in breakthrough study
Shutterstock https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/scientists-reverse-human-aging-process-in-breakthrough-study/
Diet-Induced Hepatocyte Regeneration Enhances CRISPR-Mediated Gene Repair
FDA grants a Breakthrough Device Designation for Spiderwort Spinal Cord Technology
CelluBridge designated Breakthrough Device by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/11/12/2125460/0/en/FDA-grants-a-Breakthrough-Device-Designation-for-Spiderwort-Spinal-Cord-Technology.html
Stem cells in spine, orthopedics: 6 notes for surgeons
Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways
Microscopic images of human stem cell–derived airway tissue models with cell nuclei (blue) and SARS-CoV-2–infected cells (green); tissue exposed to cigarette smoke (right) had 2 to 3 times more infected […]
A New Cell Map of the Human Heart
In these beating human heart cells, scientists have highlighted a protein important in muscle contraction (green). A new cell atlas reveals this protein and others in different heart cells’ locations. […]
UCSD Researchers Use Adenosine to Command Stem Cells to Build New Bone
Stained image of stem-cell-derived osteoblasts. https://scitechdaily.com/ucsd-researchers-use-adenosine-to-command-stem-cells-to-build-new-bone/
Why Does Stress Turn Hair Gray? Nerve Study Provides the Answer
Elaborate sympathetic innervation (magenta) around melanocyte stem cells (yellow). Acute stress induces hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system to release large amount of the neurotransmitter…more Credit: Hsu Laboratory, Harvard University […]
Mysterious ‘gene within a gene’ found in the coronavirus
© Provided by Live Science Risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/mysterious-gene-within-a-gene-found-in-the-coronavirus/ar-BB1aUIbU?fbclid=IwAR2OMPEMnMTCESsz_IZJRWj_GdLNrxoo1fypgvkyujmfMoyms8SsAvITDTc
Saving lives with gene replacement therapy
© Provided by Flint-Saginaw-Bay City WJRT Saving lives with gene replacement therapy https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/saving-lives-with-gene-replacement-therapy/ar-BB1aWIbM
Researchers probe ematopoietic stem cell post-transplantation complications
Credit: CC0 Public Domain https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-probe-ematopoietic-stem-cell-post-transplantation.html
Stem cell research funded
Professor Pearson in the lab https://www.opticianonline.net/news/stem-cell-research-funded
The natural artistry of disease: A wintry landscape in the eye
Widefield imaging of frosted branch angiitis. Credit: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science,TMDU https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-natural-artistry-disease-wintry-landscape.html
A potential new treatment for premature aging diseases keeps stem cells fresh longer
How muscle regenerates after exercise
Anti-aging game changer: Scientists successfully ‘reset’ cells from 114yo ‘supercentenarian’
Illustration © Pixabay / Gerd Altmann https://www.rt.com/news/484028-scientists-successfully-reset-cells-supercentenarian/
Phase 1 Trial of Stem Cells in Treating Bradykinesia to Open in US
World’s First Three-Parent Monkeys Created
The aptly named Chimero is one of the world’s first chimeric monkeys. | Jim Newman/OHSU https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/worlds-first-three-parent-monkeys-created
Study sheds light on how MSCs suppress inflammation long after they leave the body
IMAGE: MONOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES ENGULF CYTOPLASMIC COMPONENTS OF MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS (MSCS) AND ARE REPROGRAMMED TO SUPPRESS A T CELL RESPONSE. A 3D RECONSTRUCTION AND SURFACE RENDERING OF A CONFOCAL […]
Can Hearts Repair Themselves Via Stem Cells
Can heart stem cells fix damaged hearts? https://ipscell.com/2020/11/heartrepair/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nichenews
These Scientists Have a Plan To Cheat Death. Will It Work?
Conceptual close up image of a synapse.Science Picture Co / Getty Images https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/these-scientists-have-plan-save-dying-brain-ncna778216
