Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) once looked likely to avoid such attacks. However, recent studies have shown that some MSCs are more immunogenic than others. Liver-derived MSCs, such as Promethera ...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and 2 Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center ...

Further, how can scientists use this knowledge to improve regeneration of the liver, the only internal organ that can regenerate or repair itself after injury? "Over the past 15 to 20 years, ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. The discovery is of great interest for cancer medicine because a change of identity of cells has come into focus as a ...

Due to the development of research methods since the early 21st century, it has been possible to demonstrate the existence of stem cells in nearly all organs. The development has led to the discovery ...

Hematopoietic stem cells and the liver are known to have a close relationship in early development. Bone marrow stem cells could differentiate into oval cells, which could differentiate into ...

Liver cells. Brain cells ... at fertility clinics and establishing the world's first human embryonic stem cell line, he and other scientists got a lot more than they bargained for.

Scientists at EMBL and DKFZ have discovered how cells in the liver maintain their identity and avoid becoming tumour cells ...