Gene Found to Switch Off Stem Cells During Aging
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The finding indicates that many of the degenerative diseases of aging are caused by an active shutting down of the stem cells that renew the bodyÂs various tissues.
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
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A new class of anti-aging drugs in rats prevents disease, and death comes on suddenly without a clear cause.
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Scientists have shown that a common antibiotic can turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments for cancer patients.
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New research shows that exercise can help reverse the aging process at the cellular level. Strength training for the senior set.
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Your overbearing boss didn&#39;t turn your hair gray. Neither did your unruly teenage kids. Turns out, your hair follicles simply ran out of stem cells, according to researchers
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Korean researchers, using stem cells isolated from umbilical cord blood, succeeded in reversing the paralysis of the lower limbs caused by spinal cord injury, of a 37-year-old female patient.
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Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems.
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Scientists believe they have discovered a gene which plays a critical role in the development of sperm.
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Yale University researchers have demonstrated a single change in a person&#39;s DNA can contribute to a range of life-shortening risk factors.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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Researchers report that embryonic stem cells sent molecular signals that repaired fatal genetic damage to heart cells in laboratory mice.
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Scientists say they have found the genetic switch that turns on puberty - a molecule called kisspeptin.
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A new study by researchers at the University of California and San Fransisco has indicated that Psychological stress can take off several years from your life as it makes your cells age faster.
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Researchers think a combination of genes work together, maybe with other risk factors, to contribute to Alzheimerâs disease.
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Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that's normally switched off after fulfilling its role in brain development appears linked to a common childhood brain cancer, says a study in the Feb. 1 issue of Cancer Research.