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Umbilical cells could improve hepatic function, study shows
Posted on 2008-07-06 20:00:00 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Cellular Reprogramming | Regenerative Medicine |
A group of researchers has discovered that mononuclear blood cells taken from an umbilical cord are an effective alternative to bone marrow in hepatic diseases. Continue reading…
Stem cells found to build heart tissue
Posted on 2008-07-02 20:00:00 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Cardio-Vascular | Stem Cell Research | Stem Cell Research |
Scientists conducting stem cell research at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have demonstrated that embryonic stem cells from mice can help build the heart. Continue reading…
Anti-blood clot treatment 'crucial' for over 60s surgery patients
Posted on 2008-06-02 20:00:00 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Death and Dying | Drug Trends | Surgery |
Too few patients receive post-discharge therapy after hip or knee-replacement surgery, increasing the risk of life-threatening venous thrombosis, according to a new report. Continue reading…
Doctors Using Pig Powder to Regrow a Soldier's Finger
Posted on 2008-05-28 11:25:23 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Biotechnology |
While the report of pig bladder powder growing back a man's finger might have been a wee bit exaggerated and/or fabricated, the science behind it is sound. In fact, doctors in Texas are using a pig-based powder, dubbed "Pixie Dust," to try to grow back a soldier's finger. Continue reading…
Growing Body Parts in the Lab Becomes Reality
Posted on 2008-05-27 11:25:15 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Biotechnology | Cloning |
Your heart is failing critically. A transplant would save your life, but the waiting list is long and the odds are stacked against you. So instead, doctors extract some of your bone marrow, heart and muscle cells, go back to their laboratory and return in four to six weeks with ... a freshly grown heart. Continue reading…
Pittsburgh powder performs finger 'miracle'
Posted on 2008-04-30 20:00:00 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Bioengineering | Human Enhancement | Medical Technology | Regenerative Medicine |
A remarkable medical occurrence in the USA has sparked hopes that regenerative technology can be taken to new levels. Continue reading…
Science Finding Ways to Regrow Fingers
Posted on 2007-02-21 12:22:14 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues | Regenerative Medicine |
Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers - and someday, even limbs - with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel. There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability to heal themselves. Continue reading…
Woven Cartilage, new knee! W.W.E.D. (what would Elway do?!)
Posted on 2007-02-08 07:12:05 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues |
Researchers at Duke have developed a 3-dimensional woven scaffolding material and process that will serve as a base to join with stem cells to form natural cartilage to replace your existing knee cartilage. This is great, and amazing, as it is a fully therapeutic, and uses stem cells (see they Continue reading…
How To Cut Kidney Transplantation Waiting List Death Rates By One-Third, Dramatically Reduce Instances of Discarded Organs
Posted on 2007-01-08 12:22:23 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues |
Stefanos A. Zenios, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, renowned for his application of Operations Research to tackle some of modern medicine's thorniest problems, has completed new research that could revolutionize kidney allocation for transplant waiting list candidates. The paper, "Recipient Choice Can Address the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off in Kidney Transplantation: A Mechanism Design Model," was recently published in the journal Management Science. Continue reading…
Proteins May Predict Lung Transplant Rejection
Posted on 2006-11-07 11:24:57 in Artificial & Replacement Organs & Tissues |
Researchers have identified three proteins that appear to be highly predictive of chronic lung rejection up to 20 months before the rejection occurred. Lung transplants are a common therapy for many end-stage lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension. If doctors can predict which patients are beginning to reject the transplanted organ, they could try to head it off. Continue reading…
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