AMER MAHMOOD @ 2016 The researchers tested the differentiation potential of each cell type. CL1 cells could more readily be coaxed into forming bone or fat precursors. However, blocking the expression of a gene
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The potential drugs could be tested on those cells and the data would be directly applicable to humans. This use could save vast amounts of time and money in bringing new drugs to market. Stem-cell-based therapies are not new. The first stem-cell-based therapy was a bone marrow ...
Although the technology to perform face transplants has been around for many years, doctors didn't attempt the procedures until recently, mainly because of ethical concerns. The first concern is over the donor, whose family must be willing to turn off life-support machines while the person is ...
Stem-cell-based therapies are not new. The first stem-cell-based therapy was a bone marrow transplant used to treat leukemia. In this procedure, the patient's existing bone marrow is destroyed by radiation and/or chemotherapy. Donor bone marrow is injected into the patient and the bone marrow...
But another totalitarian country, North Korea, succeeded where Saddam had failed. In 2009, the North Koreans successfully tested a nuclear weapon as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The underground explosion was so significant that it created an earthquake with a magnitude of ...
As we age this gradually diminishes to just the bones of the spine (vertebrae), breastbone (sternum), ribs, pelvis and small parts of the upper arm and leg. Bone marrow that actively produces blood cells is called red marrow, and bone marrow that no longer produces blood cells is called...
The advantage of this definition is that it can be tested. A diagnosis is tested by its outcome. If the patient is cured the diagnosis was correct, if not, it was wrong. Take for instance iron deficiency anemia. Statements, e.g., iron turnover, oncogene status of bone marrow cells and...
“When we get stem cells through the venous system, these cells will be delivered to all of [the] body. Remember that there is a process that we call homing. Mediated by biochemical signals, the cells will go straight to the sites they are needed because the chronic inflammation is emittin...
Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is an uncommon lymphoma characterized by the infiltration of the bone marrow by clonal lymphoplasmacytic cells that produce monoclonal immunoglobulin M (IgM). The disease may have an asymptomatic phase, or patients may present with symptoms and complications resulting...