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Breakthrough could lead to early detection of pregnancy complications
Science Daily, May 12, 2021 Researchers have found a way to study uterine fluid in the lab, thereby avoiding invasive procedures during pregnancy, while at

Muscle gene linked to type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now aresearch team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that in

Regenerating hair follicle stem cells
Science Daily, March 31, 2021 Researchers have identified the biological mechanism of how chronic stress leads to hair loss. They found that the stress hormone

Birth Tissues for Surgical Repair of Congenital Hernias
Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood, March 2021 Frances Verter, PhD Sometimes babies are born with a hernia, which includes any situation where organs protrude through

Scientists use nanotechnology to detect bone-healing stem cells
Science Daily, March 29, 2021 Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem

The advance could lead to the development of stem cell-based therapies for muscle loss or damage due to injury, age or disease
ScienceDaily, March 18, 2021 A UCLA-led research team has identified a chemical cocktail that enables the production of large numbers of muscle stem cells, which

New bioink brings 3D-printing of human organs closer to reality
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted with the help of patient cells

Cellular benefits of gene therapy seen decades after treatment
Science Daily, March 17, 2021 An international collaboration between Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UCL GOS Institute for Child Health and Harvard Medical School has

Treatment for type-2 diabetic heart disease
Researchers have discovered one of the reasons why more than 50 per cent of people with type 2diabetes die from heart disease. And perhaps more

Single cell sequencing opens new avenues for eradicating leukemia at its source
Technology may boost international research efforts to find drugs that eradicate cancer at its source Science Daily, March 01, 2021 Cancer stem cells that elude