Drug That Treats Cocaine Addiction May Curb Colon Cancer
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay news) -- A drug first developed to treat cocaine addiction might also help slow the spread of advanced colon cancer, a new study suggests.The drug vanoxerine appears to suppress cancer stem cell activity by... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Lab-grown ‘beef rice’ could offer more sustainable protein source, say creators
Scientist behind hybrid carbohydrate praises its ‘pleasant and novel flavour experience’Bowls of decidedly pink-tinged rice are about to feature on sustainable food menus, according to researchers who created rice grains with beef and cow fat cells grown inside them.Scientists made the experimental food by covering traditional rice grains in fish gelatin and seeding them with skeletal muscle and fat stem cells which were thengrown in the laboratory.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Food Science Environment Climate science Rice Meat industry Source Type: news
3D printer creates brain tissue that acts like the real thing
By squirting cells from a 3D printer, researchers have created tissue that looks—and acts—like a chunk of brain. In recent years, scientists have learned how to load up 3D printers with cells and other scaffolding ingredients to create living tissues, but making realistic brainlike constructs has been a challenge. Now, one team has shown that, by modifying its printing techniques, it can
print and combine multiple subtypes of cells
that better mimic signaling in the human brain.
“It’s remarkable that [the researchers] can replicate” how brain cells work, says Riccardo Levato, a regenerative...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 9, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
News at a glance: Weird early trees, CERN ’s next big collider, and protecting U.S. gray wolves
PALEONTOLOGY
Rare fossil reveals weird early tree
The earliest trees, from nearly 400 million years ago, are known mostly from fossils of their trunks; their leaves and canopy shapes have remained a mystery. A newly reported, 350-million-year-old tree found in Canada provides a vivid answer for one such primordial species: As if having a perpetual bad hair day,
a thick crown of spiky leaves stuck out perpendicularly from the trunk
. Scientists named the tree
Sanfordiacaulis densifolia
, after the owner of the New Brunswick quarry where they found five specimens. The fossils, amo...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Why I Stopped Being A “Good” Cancer Patient
“You are allergic to your oral chemotherapy,” explains my oncology team at a recent appointment. “We are going to try a newer drug,” I am on my fourth attempt to find an oral treatment suitable for both my body and my cancer, so that I can maintain a remission that took three years and a stem cell transplant to achieve. “We want to get ahead of it before it gets ahead of us.” In my headphones, Weezer achingly croons, “Say it ain’t so, your drug is a heartbreaker.”
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Since being diagnosed with phase three chronic myeloid leu...
Source: TIME: Health - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Walela Nehanda Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
How to save a life donating your blood stem cells
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Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to save a life donating blood stem cells
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Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - February 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can Stem Cells Eliminate the Need for a Knee Replacement?
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Arthritis breakthrough as stem cell treatment gives cure hope
Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have finally been given hope of a cure after scientists revealed they are developing a novel stem cell treatment. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A life-saving transplant awaits Arthur Yu — if the U.S. government lets his donor into the country
Arthur Yu needs a stem cell transplant if he's going to beat leukemia. But the government is blocking his Filipino cousin from visiting to make the donation. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 18, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nathan Solis Source Type: news
University of Bristol stem cell spinout secures £ 7.6m seed funding
CellVoyant, an AI-first biotechnology spin-out from the University of Bristol accelerating the development of new stem cell therapies, has announced a £ 7.6 million seed round. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - January 18, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Business and Enterprise; Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Press Release Source Type: news
New Mayo Clinic stem cell research to take flight into space
A Mayo Clinic research experiment will be part of a payload that launches into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 29, subject to weather conditions and other factors. The research team from the lab of Dr. Abba Zubair is preparing stem cells for the flight to test how the absence of gravity plays a role in bone loss. Dr. Abba Zubair "We've known for some time that astronauts lose… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - January 18, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapy Falls Short on Stroke Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Bone marrow-derived allogeneic stem cell therapy shortly after ischemic stroke did not improve outcomes at 90 days, a phase II/III randomized clinical trial known as TREASURE found.
The rate of excellent outcomes -- a composite... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 17, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Aruna Bio Announces FDA Clearance of IND for Lead Program AB126, Enabling the First Exosome to Enter in Human Clinical Trials for a Neurological Indication
Phase 1b/2a clinical trial in acute ischemic stroke expected to initiate in 1H 2024- -Marks the first IND for Aruna's platform with plans to expand AB126, an unmodified exosome derived from proprietary neural stem cells, to other neurological indications including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-…#gmp #boston #athens #arunabioinc #fda #ab126 #stevenstice #phd #cns #seansavitzmd (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Advanced Spatial Tools Map Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niches
New technologies and archival tissue biopsy samples enable exploration of changes in the bone marrow as people age. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - January 15, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news