Intricate sugar networks dissolve to create pathways for blood in lab-grown tissues
Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels
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Cord blood as source for stem cell transplant
In addition to showing a decrease in the chance of graft-versus-host disease, which develops when a transplanted blood system attacks a patient’s tissues, the study shows a slightly lower rate of relapse in these patients undergoing transplant with cord blood
Insights into bioprinted skeletal muscle tissue models
Researchers have provided an in-depth analysis of 3D in vitro biomimetic skeletal muscle tissue models, highlighting the great potential of bioprinting technology
Researchers grow hairy skin from human stem cells
Scientists have determined how to grow hairy skin using human stem cells—developing one of the most complex skin models in the world
Targeting stem cells: the path to curing poor-prognosis leukaemia
Researchers have discovered what could prove a new and improved way to treat the poor-prognosis blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia or AML
Putting ‘super’ in natural killer cells
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor activity and persistence; researchers now seek to develop a clinical therapy
Human textiles for tissue repairs
The extracellular matrix produced by human cells has been fashioned into a yarn and weaved to make new blood vessels
Researchers model human stem cells to identify degeneration in glaucoma
Using human stem cell models, researchers found they could analyze deficits within cells damaged by glaucoma, with the potential to use this information to develop new strategies to slow the disease process
Researchers produce a model of the early embryonic brain
The model will increase our understanding of how the human brain develops and can thereby help to accelerate the development of stem cell treatments for brain disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy and dementia