News articles tagged with 'fibroblast'
Stanford researchers discover molecular determinant of cell identity
— 21 Mar 2011 16:12 | HealthIf a big bunch of your brain cells suddenly went rogue and decided to become fat cells, it could cloud your decision-making capacity a bit. Fortunately, early in an organism's development,…
Transforming skin cells into cartilage
— 10 Jan 2011 18:45 | HealthIn this paper, Noriyuki Tsumaki and his team at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, used fibroblasts isolated from adult mouse skin, and expressed proteins used to induce…
New study upends thinking about how liver disease develops
— 4 Jan 2011 20:41 | HealthIn the latest of a series of related papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Austria and elsewhere, present a new and more…
Tumours bring their own support cells when forming metastases
— 2 Dec 2010 20:04 | HealthThe process of metastasis requires that cancer cells travelling from a primary tumour find a hospitable environment in which to implant themselves and grow. A new study from Massachusetts…
Breakthrough in cancer vaccine research
— 5 Nov 2010 13:00 | HealthResearchers at the University of Cambridge hope to revolutionise cancer therapy after discovering one of the reasons why many previous attempts to harness the immune system to treat…
How injured nerves grow themselves back
— 28 Sep 2010 13:15 | HealthUnlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs to the central nervous system have an astonishing ability to regenerate themselves after injury.…
Study finds that cancer-causing gene crucial in stem cell development
— 3 Sep 2010 12:34 | HealthStem cells might be thought of as trunks in the tree of life. All multi-cellular organisms have them, and they can turn into a dazzling variety other cells - kidney, brain, heart or…
A built-in source for new heart cells
— 6 Aug 2010 07:47 | BiologyIn heart disease, cardiac muscle gradually dies off and, with little or no way to regenerate those cells, that can ultimately lead the heart to fail. But scientists reporting in the…
Researchers discover mechanism that limits scar formation
— 11 Jun 2010 11:06 | HealthResearchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that an unexpected cellular response plays an important role in breaking down and inhibiting the formation of…
Molecular marker could help spot pancreatic cancer early
— 27 Apr 2010 12:06 | HealthResearchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a molecular marker of pancreatic cancer that may help spot the disease at its earliest…