blood vessels

Nanoparticle program delivers anti-cancer therapy

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:59:59 -0400

A research team at Washington University in St. Louis has combined a nanoparticle platform used in imaging growing blood vessels and combined it with the fungal drug fumagillin to create a new Read more...

Mutant proteins could treat blocked arteries

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:59:59 -0400

A researcher at Florida State University College of Medicine has been studying mutant human proteins that could spur the body to develop new blood vessels, offering a radical new approach to treating Read more...

Gene therapy advance a better way to target genes

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:59:59 -0400

A team of scientists led by British Nobel laureate Sir Aaron Klug has advanced a new approach to gene therapy. The team has designed zinc-fingered nucleases that can recognize a specific sequence of Read more...

Scientists herald "breakthrough" on blindness

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:59:59 -0400

Activating the Robo4 protein in mice helped them to develop working blood vessels and ward off the kind of common physical damage that leads to blindness. And the work may point to new therapies for Read more...

Humacyte sees success developing blood vessels

admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:59:59 -0500

Starting off with a batch of donor cells, researchers at Humacyte have developed a collagen matrix from which the cells are then extracted, leaving an 'acellular' material that can be used to craft Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Stem cells used to create blood vessels; Molecular switch found for breast cancer;

admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:59:58 -0500

Stem Cell Research A group of South Korean scientists used embryonic stem cells to create blood vessels that were later successfully grafted into animals suffering from ischemia. This approach could Read more...

Fat stem cells used to create new nerves

admin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:59:59 -0400

Scientists at Manchester University have grown new peripheral nerves by using stem cells extracted from fat, and they are suggesting that the new therapy may be available to patients in as little as Read more...

Patch to replace heart transplants?

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:59:59 -0400

Children's Hospital Boston has also been the center of new cardiovascular research. Another team there developed a patch that dispatches the growth stimulating protein periostin to damaged areas of Read more...

Scientists grow blood vessels from stem cells

admin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:59:59 -0400

Using adult stem cells extracted from bone marrow, scientists at the University of Buffalo have grown new blood vessels and successfully tested them in sheep. In addition to contracting and dilating, Read more...

Nanomaterials used to fix neuron damage

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:01:39 -0400

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 …