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Disc comfort: gene therapy for chronic back pain

Disc comfort: gene therapy for chronic back pain

by Megan Giboney - RegMedNet - Ohio State University (USA) researchers have developed a novel non-viral gene therapy to treat discogenic back pain, a type of chronic low back pain that results from the degeneration of intervertebral discs. Intervertebral discs...

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Why Can’t a Human Be More like a Salamander?

Why Can’t a Human Be More like a Salamander?

By Eve Herold - Healthspan Action Coalition - Could a human regenerate an organ or a limb, like starfish or Axolotls, the little smiling salamanders that retain neoteny, or qualities rarely seen in organisms past the larval stage? And, Frankenstein aside, could...

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Building More Homes for Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Building More Homes for Hematopoietic Stem Cells

By Columbia University Irving Medical Center - A new study reveals how stem cell niche generation is regulated in bone marrow, which could lead to improvements in stem cell transplantation for the treatment of blood diseases. Bone marrow transplants give patients new...

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Inhale, exhale, in vitro: generating epithelial iPSCs

Inhale, exhale, in vitro: generating epithelial iPSCs

by Kadeja Johnson - RegMedNet - A new study details findings that provide an alternative way to study human lung regeneration. A team of researchers from the Boston Medical Center (BMC; MA, USA) and Boston University (BU; MA, USA) have developed a method using...

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