Fertility doctors are warning women not to leave it too late to freeze eggs for future IVF procedures, even though the science is increasing the odds of conception.
Category: Research
Molecular switch that promotes heart cell maturation discovered
Discovery may help advance the development of stem cell treatments for heart diseaseA molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow into more mature, adult-like…
Scientists regenerate bone tissue using only proteins secreted by stem cells
Scientists have discovered a way to regrow bone tissue using the protein signals produced by stem cells.
Dying cells can protect their stem cells from destruction
An SOS signal from dying daughter cells allows their mother stem cells to protect themselves from radiation and chemotherapy damageCells dying as the result of radiation exposure or chemotherapy…
Gene found that is essential to maintaining breast and cancer stem cells
The gene and hormone soup that enables women to breastfeed their newborns also can be a recipe for breast cancer, particularly when the first pregnancy is after age 30.
A fine-tuned approach improves platelet generation from stem cells
A low platelet count can occur as the result of a variety of medical conditions and as a medication side effect.
Lifelong flu vaccine hopes raised by immune cell discovery
Scientists discover how flu-killing immunity cells can memorise and destroy strains of influenza, raising hopes for a new lifelong flu vaccine.
Before an operation, low blood pressure rather than high is a risk factor for death
New research suggests that, before an operation, low blood pressure rather than high blood pressure is an independent risk factor for death.
Many UK patients with gonorrhea prescribed outdated antibiotics
Many UK patients with gonorrhea are being prescribed antibiotics that are no longer recommended for treating the infection by their family doctor, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Regenerative Medicine highlights the immunological challenges that lie ahead for RegenMed
The journal Regenerative Medicine has published a special focus issue on methods to avoid immune rejection in regenerative medicine.
Save Our Sons campaign arrives in Canberra to lobby Prime Minister
A group campaigning for increased support for the rare muscle-wasting condition Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy takes its message directly to Tony Abbott.