UCLA researchers have made headway using muscle stem cells to regrow damaged muscle in mice. Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA are one step closer to developing stem cell therapies to regenerate skeletal muscle in humans. Working in mice, the UCLA team discovered how...
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Stem cell research could enable blood to be made in other parts of the body
by Nancy Fliesler, Children’s Hospital Boston Graphical abstract. Credit: Developmental Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.04.007 Our bodies make blood in a specialized niche—a “nursery” within our bone marrow that nurtures blood stem cells so they can replicate and make different kinds of blood cells. The lab of Leonard Zon, MD, has even shown how blood stem cells, once they...
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Stem cell research delivers new points of attack against Parkinson’s disease
by University of Luxembourg Microscopy pictures of neurons derived from skin cells. Credit: University of Luxembourg In a seven-year research effort, an international team of scientists has clarified the cause for certain genetic forms of Parkinson’s disease, and has identified potential pharmacological treatments. The interdisciplinary research team, led by Prof. Rejko Krüger, of the Luxembourg Centre...