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A dozen new Biomedical Research Units created under the U.K.'s National Institute for Health Research will receive more than €56 million to fund translational work on ailments that include obesity Read more...

Scientists at London's Imperial College have developed a patch made from embryonic stem cells to repair damaged hearts. The team matured human heart cells in a lab dish and then created a patch out Read more...

Investigators have identified a molecule that counteracts estrogen in the cardiovascular system as well as activating estrogen receptors in breast tissue, promoting the development of tumors. The Read more...

Prominent British cardiac surgeon Magdi Yacoub says that he believes that scientists will quickly perfect the use of adult stem cells for growing a complete new ventricle for transplant, with human Read more...

Researchers from Geron and the University of Washington have completed new animal studies that offer fresh evidence Read more...

Stem Cell Research About a dozen different companies are racing to take the lead in using stem cells to treat heart disease. Read more...

Researchers are recruiting 1,000 healthy members of the Health Alliance Plan in Michigan to examine them for 15 common genetic variations that raise their risk for disease. The scientists want to know if a genetic report card can prompt healthy people to take action to avoid a disease if they are at a higher risk. Participants will get counseling and receive the report in the mail, though it will not become part of their medical record.

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A new study in mice raises the possibility that humans may one day be able to eat any kind of fat they want without raising their risk of heart disease. The study involved deleting a gene in the mice that causes production of ACAT2, an enzyme that alters the molecular structure of cholesterol so that it can be transported to the body's cells.

"We deleted an enzyme in mice and they could eat any type of fat and not get heart disease," said Lawrence Rudel, Ph.D., a professor of …

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Northwestern University researcher Samuel Stupp has presented the results of a study in which he injected nanomaterials into the severed spinal cords of mice, allowing them to walk again after several weeks of therapy. The nanomaterials he used were designed to self-assemble into nanofibers which repaired damaged neurons. The research offers new insights into the near-term research potential of nanotechnology and offers hope for patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's who suffer from …

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Scientists in the U.K. have used stem cells harvested from bone marrow to create heart valve tissue. And they're pushing their work into animal studies this year in the hope that human clinical trials on valve transplants can begin in three years. The researchers grew the three-centimeter wide valves by exposing stem cells to chemicals, which spurred their differentiation into heart valve cells. The tissue was grown on a …

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