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Blocking Spike in Stem Cell Growth After a Brain Injury

There are about 2 million Americans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) annually. The severity of the trauma may differ from patient to patient but leads to a wide range of motor, behavioral, cognitive as well as intellectual disabilities in the patients. These disabilities may be long term or short term. TBI is a global health concern and despite the huge number of injuries, the treatment options are limited. There have been many treatments and studies that suggested excessive burst of new brain cells after TBI helped in the recovery of the patients better. Breaking this common assumption, Dr. Viji Santhakurmar (Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University) and her colleagues proved otherwise with their report. They challenged this assumption and found that an excessive neurogenesis may, in fact, lead to memory decline, seizures. Neurogenesis aftera a Brain Injury May Lead to Memory Decline, Seizures It has been p...
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Funded Scientists Discover a New Way to Make Stem Cells Using Antibodies

We know how antibodies perform in our body to restrict the foreign invasions, so that we can protect ourselves from various illnesses caused by viruses and bacteria. Other than these usual physiological activities, they are found to have lent their hands in the development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by using external parameters. This, we can take as a major breakthrough in the field of medical science, which could be effective in producing different drugs, and medicinal therapies to combat a range of diseases. In a recent research by the scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), it has been proved that antibodies could be a useful component to a new approach as "reprogramming" ordinary adult cells into stem cells or induced pluripotent cells. And to do the "reprogramming" techniques into the DNA's of the adult cells, no invasive procedures are needed to be followed as is with the "reprogramming of stem cells in the human body". We ...
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