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Over 10 million units of platelets are transfused worldwide each year in one of the most common procedures in clinical medicine. However, platelets derived from human donors can transmit infections and trigger serious immune reactions that eventually render the therapy ineffective (a condition known as alloimmune refractoriness). In addition, since…
Over 90 million blood transfusions are carried out worldwide each year and alternative sources to donor-derived blood are being sought to meet rising demand. In addition there is a need to secure a safer supply of blood products, chiefly in developing countries where there is a relatively higher risk of…
Researchers from UPM and CSIC have employed waste from the agri-food industry to develop biomaterials that are able to act as matrices to regenerate bone and cartilage tissues, which is of great interest for the treatment of diseases related to ageing.
19 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A better understanding of how we could manipulate immune system conditions might aid to develop novel therapies against Alzheimer's, Kizil argues...
31 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Using a mouse model, the rate of miscarriage was over 20% in the group that was not transplanted with EPCs while the miscarriage rate was only 5% in...
8 August 2016 | By Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, have discovered that the key controller of trunk, tail and spinal development is the Oct4 gene, one of the essential regulators of stem cells. The team intend to use their data to open new avenues to the study of spinal cord regeneration...
5 August 2016 | By MDI Biological Laboratory
The ability of animals to regenerate body parts has always fascinated scientists but until the advent of sophisticated tools for genetic and computational analysis, they had no way of studying the genetic machinery that enables regeneration...
4 August 2016 | By Tokyo Institute of Technology
Certain species of amphibians and fish have the remarkable ability to regenerate tissue. Advances in molecular biological analyses have allowed researchers to identify specific molecules and signalling mechanisms involved in tissue regeneration. Fgf signalling is one such key mechanism...
