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Process Could Be Similar to How First Living Cells Formed; Applications to Industry Possible
Immigration has been a central concern of President Donald Trump. Since taking office, his administration has put forth a number of policies to restrict the number of immigrants allowed each year, as well as from what nations those immigrants can come.
Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), researchers with Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California, were able to grow natural-looking hair that grows through the skin.
National Cancer Control Efforts Should Address the System, Not Its Individual Parts, Says New Report
Current cancer control efforts in the United States typically are fragmented and uncoordinated, but taking a systems approach to establish a U.S. National Cancer Control Plan would address the challenge more holistically, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
In a paper published in the Journal of Molecular Neuroscience scientists at Boston University School of Medicine have shown that increasing the levels of the naturally occurring Klotho protein reduces the neurological deficits and prolongs life span in an experimental model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.The leading scientists on this study are also affiliated with Klogene Therapeutics, Inc.
Vivoryon Therapeutics AG, announced that they have entered into a research collaboration with University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, to discover and develop first-in-class therapeutics in cancer immunotherapy.
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
Researchers at Oregon State University recently improved on a technique using magnetic nanoclusters. Their research was published in May in the journal ACS Nano.
Osaka Medical College, Fukui Tateami Co., Ltd. and Teijin Limited announced that the alliance has launched a clinical trial of their newly developed patch material, OFT-G1, for cardiovascular surgery and the first surgery using the OFT-G1 was successfully performed.
Scientists created a protein cocktail that helped repair cardiac tissue. They believe it may potentially decrease many of the complications associated with stem cell transplantation.
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