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Groundbreaking Trial at the Mayo Clinic
In a ground-breaking trial for researchers and physicians at the Mayo Clinic, stem cells will be put to use in their first clinical trial on patients with a rare early-childhood heart disease. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a defect characterized...(read more) (Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab)
Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab - June 12, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Michael Jones Tags: Current Events Molecular Diagnostics Pathology Research Source Type: blogs

SENS Research Foundation Mentioned in Los Angeles Magazine
Here is a recent article from the local Los Angeles press, in which the author manages to touch on a broader range of the pro-human-longevity community than is usually the case: What researchers do know is that there are limits to how far we can naturally extend the human life span. L. Stephen Coles, a UCLA lecturer and executive director of the Gerontology Research Group, documents and studies "supercentenarians" - people who live to 110 or longer. When he started tracking the longest-lived humans around 2000, "the oldest [known] person in history was a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Pluripotent Stem Cells Are There to Be Found in Adult Tissues
One of the emerging themes over the past few years of stem cell research is that various forms of pluripotent stem cell can be found in adult tissues. Pluripotency in a stem cell is the ability to differentiate to form lineages of any cell type in the body. The well known types of adult stem cell that researchers have cataloged over the past few decades are only multipotent, meaning that they are limited in the type of cell lineages they can create. A multipotent stem cell supports a particular tissue type made up of a few types of cell. Why does this matter? It's all about the efficiency and cost of research and developm...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Phosphate Additives Promote Hardening of the Arteries
In this study subjects who were allowed to eat only the foods supplied by the researchers were, for four weeks, fed a control diet free of any phosphate additives. Then, for the next four weeks, they were fed a diet that contained the identical amount of calories, protein, fat, and carbohydrate as the control diet but this diet was made up of foods containing inorganic phosphate additives, like American cheese, soda, and processed meats.The report explains, "The average phosphorus content of the daily menu was 979 mg during the control period and 2124 mg during the test period." After a month of eating the foods with the a...
Source: Diabetes Update - June 7, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jenny Source Type: blogs

Some new preprints of interest and comments on "The case for preprints in biology"
Getting more and more into preprints (see for example these posts Guest post from Jake Scott: Building trust: a sine qua non for successful acceptance of preprints in the biological sciences and More bio preprint discussion sites ...). So am starting to browse preprint servers a bit more and I have found some recently posted preprints of interest: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1206 From arVix: [1305.7256] tRNA signatures reveal polyphyletic origins of streamlined SAR11 genomes among the alphaproteobacteria Coalescence, genetic diversity and adaptation in sexual populations from Neher et al. Reduci...
Source: The Tree of Life - June 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Global Stem Cell Consortium Webinar, Cure Alzheimer's Fund
Join us for a live-streamed webinar to learn about employing stem cells to help uncover the cure for Alzheimer’s disease. +Alzheimer's Reading Room Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 1:00pm Join us for a live-streamed webinar to learn about employing stem cells to help uncover the cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The “Stem Cell Bank” created during this research will be available to researchers around the world, enhancing the ability of global scientific discovery to proceed at a more rapid pace. There is no pre-registration. Simply log on to our website www.curealz.org a few minutes before 1:00 pm. Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 5, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Steady and Incremental Progress in Controlling Cells
A broad range of future medicine will be based on ways and means of ever more precisely controlling cells. Many scientists are engaged in the process of developing the necessary knowledge and tools: finding out how to instruct cells to take particular actions, change their internal state, or even shift between cell types; understanding cellular processes well enough to be able to adjust or repair them when they are broken; learning how to steer vast numbers of cells in the collaborative work of maintaining tissue function and building new tissue. Progress is incremental, as there are hundreds of different cell types in the...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Guest Bloggers Mary Ann Chirba and Alice A. Noble - Our Bodies, Our Cells: FDA Regulation of Autologous Adult Stem Cell Therapies
Stem cells have been an endless source of fascination and controversy since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996. This month’s announcement of a cloned human embryo from a single skin cell [1] came on the heels of Sir John... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 1, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: HealthLawProf Hodnicki Source Type: blogs

Considering the Regenerative Signals Emitted by Transplanted Stem Cells
Enhanced regeneration can result from introducing new stem cells into a patient, and this effect is the basis for a very broad range of first generation transplant therapies. In most cases the benefit doesn't result from the transplanted stem cells setting forth to create replacement cells for damaged tissue. Instead it is caused by chemical signals produced by the transplanted cells: these signals spur native cell populations to take action. So naturally the next step here is for researchers to gain a good enough understanding of stem cell signals to remove the need for cell transplants, replacing them with a therapy base...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Bracketed by Billionaires
Billionaires are just like you and I, but with deeper pockets. They will age and die on the same schedule as the rest of us, as future life span is almost entirely determined by the pace of progress in medical science and the availability of modern medicine is very flat. Within a few years of any new medical technology arriving in the clinic it settles to a price that can be widely afforded. If you're sixty and sitting on your retirement fund then there's very little in the way of medicine that a billionaire could afford but you can't. The billionaire can afford a dedicated hospital with new wall murals, but the therapies ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Stem Cell Transplants for Leukemia Showing Improved Outcomes
Researchers recently published a set of encouraging data resulting from the use of stem cell transplants in the treatment of forms of leukemia. Once a particular new technique is adopted in medical practice, further progress is often a matter of steady incremental improvement. Here that improvement is quite considerable over the past decade, a reflection of the pace of medical science in general: Survival rates have increased significantly among patients who received blood stem cell transplants from both related and unrelated donors. [The] study authors attribute the increase to several factors, including advances in HLA ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Cloning Paper Rushed to Publication, Errors Found
The scientific community seems to me to be obsessed with cloning. Even with induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology making cloning embryos for stem cell harvesting look like taking the long way around, they still are pursuing somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) the scientific name for cloning.The announcement that a team in Oregon had successfully created embryos with SCNT (with eggs "donated" from young cash-stripped co-eds) and had extracted stem cells from these embryos (destroying them in the process) was news all over the world. The findings were published in the journal Cell with unprecedented spee...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - May 29, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Cloning Source Type: blogs

Strides in Stem Cell Survival
Recent research conducted in the treatment of blood diseases and cancers showed a marked improvement in survival rates for patients after receiving stem cell transplants. A Newswise article chronicled the study from the Center for international Blood...(read more) (Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab)
Source: ADVANCE Discourse: Lab - May 29, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Michael Jones Tags: Current Events Pathology Research Source Type: blogs

Stem Cells as Drug Factories
The future of medical drugs will largely involve the manufacture of proteins that precisely interact with our biochemistry to achieve specific effects. They will either be existing proteins with a role in regulating metabolism, stem cell activity, immune cell response, and so on, or they will be entirely new nanomachinery intended to produce results that our biology cannot achieve on its own, such as the effective destruction of harmful waste products, for example. These designed proteins will be delivered the old-fashioned way, via injection, for a good many years yet. Ultimately, however, managing the manufacture and the...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Bone Marrow Transplant Countdown: 86 Days to Remission
In previous articles I recounted my friend Fred’s battle with acute myloid leukemia and his search for a donor willing to carry through on an earlier pledge to provide life-saving stem cells. Here is the rest of Fred’s story.Contributor: Sharon Gloger FriedmanPublished: May 24, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - May 24, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Hold the Mayo
When I posted my M-spike update yesterday, I completely forgot to post a Mayo update.Not this kind of Mayo. The kind that is healthy for you.I started going to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota a couple of weeks after my official diagnosis in 2005. I wanted a second opinion, because a doctor here (not my current doctor) wanted me to have a stem-cell transplant ASAP. Going to Mayo turned out to be a great move, because I was able to postpone the transplant. I still haven't needed one -- so far. Yay, Mayo!After that first visit, I went there every few months, then every six months (and sometime in there I had a three-week stay fo...
Source: The Adventures of Cancer Girl - May 23, 2013 Category: Cancer Source Type: blogs

The 2 week wait and IVF
When a girl is born , she already has the entire stock of eggs she is ever going to produce in her life. Unfortunately there is no new egg production in the ovaries after birth , and we cannot coax the ovaries to produce new egg cells. During an IVF cycle, we just grow some of the eggs which are already present in your ovaries. Please do not believe the stem cell scam for increasing ovarian reserve - it is not sound science ! Read more : http://www.drmalpani.com/increase-my-ovarian-reserve.htm (Source: The Patient's Doctor)
Source: The Patient's Doctor - May 23, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs

Is there anything I can do to increase my ovarian reserve ?
When a girl is born , she already has the entire stock of eggs she is ever going to produce in her life. Unfortunately there is no new egg production in the ovaries after birth , and we cannot coax the ovaries to produce new egg cells. During an IVF cycle, we just grow some of the eggs which are already present in your ovaries. Please do not believe the stem cell scam for increasing ovarian reserve - it is not sound science ! Read more : http://www.drmalpani.com/increase-my-ovarian-reserve.htm (Source: The Patient's Doctor)
Source: The Patient's Doctor - May 23, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs

Are plant stem cells good for hair and skin?
Kris’s question…I am noticing that plant stem cells are popping up in a number of skin and hair care products recently. I cannot find much info as to any efficacy beyond marketing information from the companies of said products. Any information is appreciated! The Beauty Brains respond: Like bow ties in Dr. Who, stem cells are cool. Why stem cells are cool Stem cells are unique because a) they are able to create more of themselves (they have the property of self-renewal) and b) they are able to turn into other cells (they have the property of differentiation). Therefore these cells are able to play a major role...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 23, 2013 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

Arguing for the Role of Nuclear DNA Damage in Aging
There is some debate over whether the accumulation of damage to nuclear DNA contributes meaningfully to degenerative aging. It certainly raises the odds of cancer, but are its effects beyond that significant? Here is an open access paper in search of evidence, in which the authors suggest that epigenetic changes in individual cells result from repair of significant forms of damage such double strand breaks. The theory is that a growing disarray in cellular behavior is caused by scattered mutations and epigenetic changes, and this disarray contributes to aging, for example via degrading the ability of stem cells to maintain...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Function of Cellular Prion Protein
from Takashi Onodera, Katsuaki Sugiura, Shigeru Matsuda and Akikazu Sakudo writing in Prions: Current Progress in Advanced Research:Although much is known about the effect of PrPSc in prion diseases, the normal function of PrPC is poorly understood. PrPC may act as an antiapoptotic agent by blocking some of the internal environmental factors that initiate apoptosis. PrP-knockout methods provide powerful hints on the neuroprotective function of PrPC. Using PrPC-knockout cell lines, the inhibition of apoptosis through STI1 is mediated by PrPC-dependent SOD activation. Recently several reports show that PrPC participate in tr...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - May 20, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, May 16, 2013
Brought to you by MedPage Today. 1. Arts Therapy Has Benefits in Cancer. Cancer patients who participated in creative arts therapy derived significant clinical, psychological, and quality-of-life benefits, a meta-analysis of more than two dozen studies showed. 2. Fecal Transplant: FDA Wants Regulation. Researchers who have been reporting success with the use of fecal transplant to treat resistant C. difficile are likely to need an OK from the the FDA to continue that treatment. 3. Study: Embryonic Stem Cells Cloned. For the first time, researchers have efficiently produced human embryonic stem cells, using a process simila...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 16, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Cancer Infectious disease Source Type: blogs

Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time
Scientists have used the cloning technique that led to Dolly the sheep to turn human skin into embryonic stem cells – which can make any tissue in the body. The US team overcame technical problems that had frustrated researchers for more than a decade to create batches of the bodys master cells from donated skin. […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - May 16, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Therapeutic Cloning Attained
Therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer are names given to a method of producing embryonic stem cells from a patient's own cells. These embryonic stem cells could then be used to generate cells of any type as a basis for regenerative therapies. Making the process work has proven to be challenging, however, both from a technical point of view and thanks to misguided attempts to make it illegal. In recent years the focus shifted towards work on induced pluripotent stem cells instead, but a research group now claims success in the original goal: Scientists [have] successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to bec...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

New Treatment Could Make Older Hearts Young Again
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered a treatment that reversing the effects of aging in the hearts of mice, making them in effect young again. The discovery has implications for the treatment of heart disease in humans.Contributor: Mark WhittingtonPublished: May 15, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - May 15, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Human Embryos Created by Cloning in Oregon
Once induced pluripotent stem cells hit the scene, human cloning slowly faded away. Why clone embryos with human eggs (exploiting women in the process) to get "patient-specific" embryonic stem cells when you can just take an adult cell and reprogram it back to an embryonic-like state? No eggs, no cloning, no creating and destroying embryos.But I knew cloning was just hiding in the shadows waiting to resurface. Scientists are still trying to achieve this "holy grail" of human biology: the creation of human clones. Ones that will generate embryonic stem cells.A team of scientists, including a fertility sp...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - May 15, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Cloning Source Type: blogs

California Bill Would Lift Ban on Paying Women for Eggs
A new bill introduced into the California legislature would lift the ban on paying women for their eggsAB 926, the Reproductive Health and Research Bill, says that to encourage reproductive health and research in the state, women need to be compensated for donating their eggs, a hot commodity in the embryonic stem cell research and infertility arenas....So why would California want more women to go through such a process just for research purposes? AB 926 gives a list of research that would benefit from having more human eggs, which includes reducing the high volume of multiple pregnancies in IVF. But there is some ver...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - May 14, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Human eggs Source Type: blogs

Stem-cell therapy for hyperplastic left heart syndrome
After showing promising results in early-phase trials for ischemic heart disease, stem-cell therapy is now being examined as a possible mechanism to treat congenital diseases such as hyperplastic left heart syndrome. (Source: Blogs@theHeart.org)
Source: Blogs@theHeart.org - May 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: theheart.org Tags: Mayo Clinic Talks Source Type: blogs

Stem-cell therapy for hypoplastic left heart syndrome
After showing promising results in early-phase trials for ischemic heart disease, stem-cell therapy is now being examined as a possible mechanism to treat congenital diseases such as hyperplastic left heart syndrome. (Source: Blogs@theHeart.org)
Source: Blogs@theHeart.org - May 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: theheart.org Tags: Mayo Clinic Talks Source Type: blogs

Telomere Length: Cause of Aging or Marker of Aging?
Telomeres are repeating sequences of nucleic acids that cap the ends of chromosomes in the cell nucleus and stop actual gene-coding DNA from being chopped off when a cell divides. The mechanisms of DNA replication require extra leg room at the ends of the strand, a trailing sequence that is not copied over to the new strand under assembly - and the primary role of telomeres is to be the part that is dropped on the floor. A little of their length is thus lost with every cell division. This shortening acts as a clock to count cell divisions, and cells with very short telomeres stop replicating - they either enter cellular se...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 13th 2013
In this study we used the hMTH1-Tg mouse model to investigate how oxidative damage to nucleic acids affects aging. hMTH1-Tg mice express high levels of the hMTH1 hydrolase that degrades 8-oxodGTP and 8-oxoGTP and excludes 8-oxoguanine from both DNA and RNA. Compared to wild-type animals, hMTH1-overexpressing mice have significantly lower steady-state levels of 8-oxoguanine in both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of several organs, including the brain. hMTH1 overexpression prevents the age-dependent accumulation of DNA 8-oxoguanine that occurs in wild-type mice. These lower levels of oxidized guanines are associated with in...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Two-year-old girl receives new trachea made from her own stem cells | The Verge
Doctors announced today that two-and-a-half year old Hannah Warren just became the youngest person in history to receive a bioengineered organ transplant, a new windpipe made of a synthetic scaffold and her own stem cells. The nine-hour long procedure was performed April 9th, at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, but the results were just […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - May 9, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Parabiosis Points to GDF-11 as a Means to Reverse Age-Related Cardiac Hypertrophy
Parabiosis involves joining the circulatory systems of two animals. This is of interest for a number of studies in which old mice and young mice are linked together, known as heterochronic parabiosis. The young mice acquire a little of the metabolic, cellular, and gene expression changes characteristic of old mice, while in the the old mice some of these measures reverse towards more youthful levels. In stem cell activity in particular, the environment of signals present in the blood seems to dictate age-related decline as much as does any inherent damage to stem cells or their niches. This reinforces the view of stem cell...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

10 Good-for-You Pregnancy Snacks
by Jacqueline Tourville Following a nutritious prenatal diet? Don’t skip snack time! Snacks are a great chance to get in another serving of a fruit, vegetable, or calcium food. you can read more here. and don’t forget to enter our May Sweepstakes Lots of great parent-to-be gifts!! Click here for a free information packet and special coupon for MAZE Cord Blood Laboratories! } (Source: Cord Blood News)
Source: Cord Blood News - May 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells Uncategorized affordable cord blood banking bananas and potassium bone marrow transplant breast feeding cord blood banking information cord blood b Source Type: blogs

Towards a Patch for Damaged Hearts
Progress is noted in the techniques needed to build functional heart tissue: Biomedical engineers have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement could be important in treating heart attack patients or in serving as a platform for testing new heart disease medicines. The "heart patch" grown in the laboratory from human cells overcomes two major obstacles facing cell-based therapies - the patch conducts electricity at about the same speed as natural heart cells and it "squeezes" appropriately. Earlier attempts to create functional heart patches have largely been unable t...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Prenatal Checkups and Tests
What You need to Know Pamela Brawer Save a Tot Prenatal care is the care you get while you are pregnant. This care can be provided by a doctor, midwife or other health care professional. The goal of prenatal care is to monitor the progress of a pregnancy and to identify potential problems before they become serious for either mom or baby. All mothers-to-be benefit from prenatal care. Women who see a health care provider regularly during pregnancy have healthier babies, are less likely to deliver prematurely, and are less likely to have other serious problems related to pregnancy. During prenatal visits, the health care p...
Source: Cord Blood News - May 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells Uncategorized affordable cord blood banking bananas and potassium bone marrow transplant breast feeding cord blood banking information cord blood b Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 6th 2013
Discussion Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! T-Regulatory Cells More Numerous in the Aged Immune System HMGA1 as a Potential Common Mechanism in Cancer A Skeptical View of Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Aging Protecting Cryonics Patients A Review of Adenylyl Cyclase Type 5 and Longevity in Mice On Extending Mouse Longevity Growth Hormone and IGF-1 in Aging IGF1R Levels in the Brain Correlate With Species Life Span Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics The Burrill and Buck Aging Meeting, May 20th 2013 SENS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2012 http://www.fightaging.org/archi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Is Serious hair care really worth the price?
RC asks…Is Serious hair care really worth the price? The Beauty Brains respond: We know what you’re thinking…how could a product line created by Sylvester Stallone’s wife NOT be totally awesome? Well, consider this: Serious sells a “Replicate and Renew” hair care trio which gives you 6 ounces of shampoo and conditioner and 4 ounces of hairspray for $85. Seriously???? Serious Skincare Replicate & Renew Hair Care Trio For that kind of cash we’d at least expect the product to CLAIM to do something unique. But aside from some vague mumbo-jumbo about “plant stem cells̶...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 4, 2013 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

HMGA1 as a Potential Common Mechanism in Cancer
Any mechanism that appears common to all cancers, or even just a wide range of cancers, is worth examination to see if it might serve as the basis for a therapy. Here is an example of speculative research of this nature: [Researchers] have identified a gene that, when repressed in tumor cells, puts a halt to cell growth and a range of processes needed for tumors to enlarge and spread to distant sites. The researchers hope that this so-called "master regulator" gene may be the key to developing a new treatment for tumors resistant to current drugs. "This master regulator is normally turned off in adult cells, but it is ver...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Healthy Eating Tips During Pregnancy
Jodi Greebel, MS, RD www.citrition.com www.dindinsfood.com There is so much conflicting information out there about what to eat and what not to eat when you are pregnant. Here is a quick guideline of what to eat and what to avoid. What to Include in Your Diet: Variety. A diet with a lot of variety helps you get all the nutrients you need. High fiber foods. Choose foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans/legumes which provide a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and can help prevent constipation. Calcium-rich foods. Choose low-fat and nonfat milk, yogurt and cheese to ensure you get adequa...
Source: Cord Blood News - May 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells Uncategorized affordable cord blood banking bananas and potassium bone marrow transplant breast feeding cord blood banking information cord blood b Source Type: blogs

Toddler Gets Windpipe Grown From Her Own Stem Cells
An adorable two year-old has a new lease on life thanks to pioneering doctors, a charitable Catholic hospital and her own stem cells. Little Hannah Warren was born without a trachea, the passageway that leads to the lungs. Although a tube was inserted from her esophagus to her lungs to help her breath, doctors told her parents that she would likely die.Hannah is now recovering from a trachea transplant. The trachea was made from a plastic scaffold and stem cells taken from her bone marrow. Continue reading at LifeNews >> (Source: Mary Meets Dolly)
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - May 1, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Stem cells, Adult Source Type: blogs

Where Are All the New Anti-Craving Drugs?
The dilemma of dwindling drug development. Drugs for the treatment of addiction are now a fact of life. For alcoholism alone, the medications legally available by prescription include disulfiram (Antabuse), naltrexone (Revia and Vivitrol)—and acamprosate (Campral), the most recent FDA-approved entry. A fourth entry, topiramate (Topamax), is currently only approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for other uses. But none of these are miracle medications, and more to the point, no bright new stars have come through the FDA pipeline for a long time. New approvals for drugs in this category, like psychiatric d...
Source: Addiction Inbox - April 30, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

New Treatment for Degenerative Disk Disease Using Stem Cells and 3D Printing
Dvice.com reports on some promising research being conducted a Cornel University that should, in the fullness of time, result in an effective treatment of Degenerative Disk Disease using stem cells and 3D printing.Contributor: Mark WhittingtonPublished: Apr 28, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 28, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

More Data on Granulocyte Transplant Cancer Therapies
This study confirmed that the in vivo growth and spread of cancer cells depend on a complex interplay between the cancer cells and the host organism. Here, hereditary components of the immune system, most likely the innate part, played a crucial role in this interplay and lead to resistance to a single experimental cancer type. The fact that leukocytes [could] be transferred to inhibit S180 cancer cell growth in susceptible recipient mice support the vision of an efficient and adverse event free immunotherapy in future selected cancer types. The failure to replicate early work for more than one form of cancer suggests t...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

A Conversation With My Bone Marrow on Her 10th Birthday
"I suck at being an adult," I said to my bone marrow while we ate our breakfast today: oatmeal prepared on the stove top with ground cinnamon and sliced banana. "Don't be so hard on yourself," my bone marrow replied. "You're a good host, except when you refuse to buy me push-up bras to impress the boy bone marrows." Ten years ago today, on April 24, 2003, I received my umbilical cord stem cell transplant to treat myelodysplasia, my second cancer. My bone marrow donor was an anonymous girl, so my blood has two of the same sex chromosome, XX, instead of XY. I have reared my bone marrow as my child, and my only complaint i...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer-free anniversary imaginative Source Type: blogs

Three and a Half Ways to Cure Cancer
Today's topic is the cure for cancer, something a grail in medicine. It will be challenging to produce, but I think that the difficulty is presently overestimated by much of the public and those in the mainstream of the research community. The reasons for this are understandable: the past half century of cancer research is a story of continually discovered ever greater complexity in cancer biology. It is the sheer exuberant variation in cancer - between types, between tissues, between individuals, and even between tumors in an individual - that makes it such a daunting foe. Every cancer is an evolving mess of broken cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

PhRMA Report: Over 5400 Medicines in Development and 70% are First in Class
According to report released by PhRMA, companies have more than 5,400 medicines in development globally, and more than 70% of therapies in the pipeline are potentially first-in-class and could offer patients new treatment options, and a notable number of potential therapies target diseases with limited treatment options such as ALS and rare diseases. A breakdown of their report offers insight into the various medicines in development for different diseases and populations. Older Americans America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 465 new medicines that target the 10 leading chronic conditi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Brain Cells Direct From Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Sometimes in science the best discoveries are those that are unexpected. Researchers in California were trying to get bone marrow stem cells to grow by introducing an antibodies to the cells. Instead the cells began to form neural cells. U.S. News & World Report has the story: Scientists have discovered an antibody that can turn stem cells from a patient's bone marrow directly into brain cells, a potential breakthrough in the treatment of neurological diseases and injuries.Richard Lerner, of the Scripps Research Institute in California, says that when a specific antibody is injected into stem cells from bone marrowwh...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - April 23, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Stem cells, Adult Source Type: blogs

2013 CR Society Conference, June 5th in California
The CR Society is a long-standing organization that promotes and provides information about the practice of calorie restriction with optimal nutrition, something shown to extend life and greatly improve measures of health in many species. There are some thousands of members, and the Society mailing lists are quite busy. The Society has done well over the years in encouraging research into the long-term health and potential longevity benefits of calorie restriction in humans, and is an excellent example of what can be achieved by building strong ties between health advocates and the scientific community. The next CR Societ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Church Is Not Backward, But Forward
It is as inevitable as the passing of time. Once there is a new pope, the world begins to wonder when the Catholic Church is going to leave its "medieval thinking" behind and join the "modern" age. It is the 21st century after all, and the Church needs to stop being so "backward."I am a cradle Catholic, and, when I was young, I subconsciously believed that the Church was "behind the times" and "out of touch."As I began my career and worked in cutting-edge biotech laboratories, there was always a nagging question: How can my Church, so rooted in the past, have something rele...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - April 22, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Science and Religion Source Type: blogs