A research team assessed the safety of conditionally immortalized proximal tubule epithelial cells for bioartificial kidney application, by using in
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Tendon stem cells could revolutionize injury recovery
The buildup of scar tissue makes recovery from torn rotator cuffs, jumper’s knee, and other tendon injuries a painful, challenging
Continue reading »Migratory dendritic cells found to activate TGF-β prior to conditioning naïve CD8+ Ts
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K. has found that migratory
Continue reading »Trio win medicine Nobel for work on how cells adapt to oxygen
Three researchers from the US and Britain on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense
Continue reading »In human cells and mice, a cure for the common cold, study reports
Temporarily disabling a single protein inside our cells might be able to protect us from the common cold and other
Continue reading »Interactions discovered in cells insulating nerve pathways
Schwann cells form a protective sheath around nerve fibres and ensure that nerve impulses are transmitted rapidly. If these cells
Continue reading »Researchers find proteins that might restore damaged sound-detecting cells in the ear
Using genetic tools in mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have identified a pair of proteins that precisely
Continue reading »Discovery reveals prolific ability of Schwann cells to generate myelin
Scientists have discovered that a special type of cell is much more prolific in generating a protective sheath covering nerve
Continue reading »Researchers identify a key regulatory mechanism in the development of normal pluripotent embryonic cells
The early development of embryos is not well understood. One necessary stage is the formation of the blastocyst, a collection
Continue reading »Changes in blood flow tell heart cells to regenerate
Altered blood flow resulting from heart injury switches on a communication cascade that reprograms heart cells and leads to heart
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