As seen in Science Daily September 24, 2014 The liver provides critical functions, such as ridding the body of toxins. Its failure can be deadly, and there are few options for fixing it. But scientists now report in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces a way to potentially inject stem cells from tonsils, a […]
Monthly Archives: October, 2014
Simple method turns human skin cells into immune strengthening white blood cells
As seen in Science Daily September 11, 2014 For the first time, scientists have turned human skin cells into transplantable white blood cells, soldiers of the immune system that fight infections and invaders. The work, done at the Salk Institute, could let researchers create therapies that introduce into the body new white blood cells capable […]
New molecule allows for up to 10-fold increase in stem cell transplants
As seen in Science Daily September 18, 2014 Investigators from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal have just published, in the journal Science, the announcement of the discovery of a new molecule, the first of its kind, which allows for the multiplication of stem cells in a […]