Stem Cell

Bone Diseases (Stem Cell)

BONE IS THE main weight-bearing tissue of the body and functions to withstand mechanical forces several times the weight of the body. Despite the numerous shapes and sizes of the bones in the body, bone tissue is structurally and microscopically similar throughout. Bone tissue exists in two general forms: Cortical bone composes the shell of […]

Blood (Stem Cell)

RECENTLY, STEM CELLS have gained a tremendous amount of attention. The scientific press emphasizes the particular values of embryonal stem cells, which presumably have true pluripotentiality. The lay press, in contrast, focuses on the discussion of topics such as the legal, moral, religious, and practical aspects of stem cell research, and particularly the indeterminate use […]

Bonn University (Stem Cell)

THE UNIVERSITY OF BONN, also known as Bonn University, is located in Bonn, Germany. It is a public research university with international collaborations, and is called in German Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn. It is one of Germany’s largest universities, boasting famous intellectuals among its alumni, including Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx. In 1818 Frederick William III […]

Burns (Stem Cell)

BURNS ARE INJURIES to tissues caused by heat, chemicals, radiations, friction, or electricity. Burns injure the skin layers, and they may also injure other parts of the body such as muscles, nerve, lungs, and the eyes. Depending on the severity and depth of tissue damage, burns are classified into various degrees: first-degree burns are superficial […]

Burnham Institute (Stem Cell)

THE BURNHAM Institute for Medical Research is located in La Jolla, California. It is a nonprofit medical research institute that focuses on cancer research. Because of the research performed at the institute, it is ranked among the top 25 such organizations in the United States. Its publication of its research findings is one of its […]

BrdU/Thymidine (Stem Cell)

IF STEM CELLs are to be introduced into a tissue as a therapeutic mechanism to stimulate the repair of damaged tissue, or in a preliminary study to see merely where they go, scientists must have a way of monitoring what becomes of the stem cells postinjection. One way is to mark the DNA with a […]

Brazil (Stem Cell)

BRAZIL IS THE largest nation in Latin America, the fifth most populous in the world, and the eighth largest economy regarding purchasing power. Most famous for its Amazon Rainforest and natural resources, Brazil is now 17th in the world in the number of scientific indexed papers published. Stem cells from different sources have been studied […]

Brain (Stem Cell)

FOR MANY YEARS the accepted dogma of neu-roscience was that there was no neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult brain. A corollary of this dogma was therefore that the brain did not contain stem cells. This dogma was established by the father of neuroscience, Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Today, scientists accept the […]

Canadian Stem Cell Network

The Canadian stem cell network is one of Industry Canada’s 21 Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) that bring together researchers and partners from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to conduct research and work in areas of science to improve the well-being of Canadians. The NCEs are federally funded programs in the fields of […]

Cambridge University

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, ALSO known as the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England, is one of the oldest universities in the world. The first record of scholastic activity at Cambridge is from 1209, when the future city was only a trading post of the Romans. Recently, Cambridge University opened a state-of-the-art research facility for stem cell […]

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