Currently, once a donated organ has been harvested it only has a few hours on ice before it “expires.” Lengthening this time period would be an incredible breakthrough that would allow patients in a wider area to potentially receive a transplant and also it would reduce some of the insanity surrounding the time pressures of … Continue reading
New York, NY – A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center has shown that Wnt signalling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair pigmentation. The study was published in the June 11, 2011 issue of the journal Cell. The research was led … Continue reading
A PILL that enables damaged hearts to repair themselves could be a reality within ten years, thanks to a British stem-cell breakthrough. Scientists have discovered that a natural embryo molecule can awaken dormant repair cells in adult hearts. It could form the basis of a drug that helps destroyed heart muscle to be rebuilt after … Continue reading