Breakthrough cancer research reverts cancer cells back into normal cells
Researchers have tested the possibility of artificially maturing breast cancer cells as an approach to turn them into a more normal cell.
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Joseph Shavit
- Nov 10
Breakthrough treatment for osteoporosis called the Fountain of Youth
As we age, our bones become thinner, we suffer fractures more often, and bone-diseases such as osteoporosis are more likely to occur.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 10
Ageing researchers found the Fountain of Youth
As we age, our bones become thinner, we suffer fractures more often, and bone-diseases such as osteoporosis are more likely to occur.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 8
Clinical trial delivers world’s first stem cell treatment for spina bifida
Groundbreaking trial aims to reverse the paralysis and other abnormal functions of spina bifida before birth.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 4
Novel blood stem cell research could change medicine of the future
Making stem cells from a patient’s adult cells – rather than human embryos – is one of the holy grails in modern medicine treatments.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 7
Single stem cell-gene therapy session can treat ALS for 3 years, study finds
Using stem cells is a powerful way to deliver important proteins to the brain or spinal cord that can’t get through the blood-brain barrier.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 7
‘Synthetic’ embryo with brain and beating heart grown by Cambridge scientists
Researchers created embryos from stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 28
Zinc reverses lung damage and improves patient survival rates
Zinc, a common mineral, may reverse lung damage and improve survival for patients with a deadly age-related condition known as IPF.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 26
Stem cells can aid repair of spinal cord damage, study finds
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have identified a group of latent stem cells that respond to injury in the central nervous system.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 6
Compound found in cosmetics can awaken stem cells to repair damaged muscles
A new study published in the journal Science reveals a unique form of cell communication that controls muscle repair.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 3
Urine-derived stem cells have robust tissue regenerative potential
Researchers focused on how telomerase activity affects the regenerative potential of human urine and other types of stem cells.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 16
How is blood formed? New research completely upends our past understanding
Using cellular “barcoding” in mice, a groundbreaking study finds that blood cells originate not from one type of mother cell, but two.
Joseph Shavit
- May 12
The Fountain of Youth discovered in stem cells
As we age, our bones become thinner, we suffer fractures more often, and bone-diseases such as osteoporosis are more likely to occur.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 20
Lower back pain prevention: It's all in the hiPS
Researchers develop a stem cell-based biomaterial that can help regenerate tissue associated with low back pain and spinal issues.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 7
The secret to staying young: The power of life long exercise to keep muscles healthy
Lifelong physical activity could protect against age-related loss of muscle mass and function, according to new research.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 9
Cellular rejuvenation therapy safely reverses signs of aging
Salk researchers treated mice with anti-aging regimen beginning in middle age and found no increase in cancer or other health problems later
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 5
Fully functional pancreatic cells produced from stem cells for the first time
Insulin is a vital hormone produced by pancreatic beta cells. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of these cells.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 22
Innovative treatment uses sound waves to help regrow bones
A tissue engineering advance using sound waves, could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 19
Patient possibly cured of HIV infection by special stem-cell transplant
A patient with HIV who received a blood stem cell transplant for high-risk acute myeloid leukemia has been free of the virus for 14 months.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 16
Biohybrid fish made from heart muscle cells swims and could lead to artificial hearts
Researchers have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells.