Obstacles to Stem Cell Therapy Cleared

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2010) — Researchers at Lund University have come up with a new technique to prevent tumours developing in connection with stem cell transplantations. read more


Original paper: Tracking differentiating neural progenitors in pluripotent cultures using microRNA-regulated lentiviral vectors. R. Sachdeva, M. E. Jonsson, J. Nelander, A. Kirkeby, C. Guibentif, B. Gentner, L. Naldini, A. Bjorklund, M. Parmar, J. Jakobsson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006568107

Erythropoietin Activates Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Couples Red Cell Mass to Mitochondrial Mass in the Heart

Circulation Research. 2010;106:1722, doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.214353

 

Martha S. Carraway, Hagir B. Suliman, W. Schuyler Jones, Chien-Wen Chen, Abdelwahid Babiker, Claude A. Piantadosi
From the Departments of Medicine (Pulmonary [M.S.C., C.-W.C., C.A.P.] and Cardiology [W.S.J.]), Anesthesiology (H.B.S., A.B., C.A.P.), and Pathology (C.A.P.), Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC. Present address for M.S.C.: Environmental Public Health Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, Chapel Hill, NC. Present address for C.-W.C.: Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Present address for A.B.: Department of Virology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.