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All cancer cells are not created equal

Click Here to Read More … A study from Massachusetts General Hospital researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow.
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Mayo Clinic: Exhaustion Renders Immune Cells Less Effective in Cancer Treatment

Click Here to Read More … Mayo Clinic: Exhaustion Renders Immune Cells Less Effective in Cancer Treatment
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Bone Marrow Stem Cells Improve Heart Function, Study Finds

Click Here to Read More … A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells derived from heart failure patients’ own bone marrow and injected into their hearts improved the function of the left ventricle, the heart’s pumping chamber.
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Ragon Institute study finds HIV-specific CD4 cells that control viral levels

Click Here to Read More … A subpopulation of the immune cells targeted by HIV may play an important role in controlling viral loads after initial infection, potentially helping to determine how quickly infection will progress.
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Mass. General researchers isolate egg-producing stem cells from adult human ovaries

Click Here to Read More … Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have isolated egg-producing stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and shown these cells can produce what appear to be normal egg cells or oocytes.
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Simple membranes could have allowed nutrients to pass into primitive cells

Click Here to Read More … An MGH research team has found that the sort of very simple membrane that may have been present on primitive cells can easily allow small molecules – including the building blocks of RNA and DNA – to pass thorough.
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Circulating tumor cells can reveal genetic signature of dangerous lung cancers

Click Here to Read More … An MGH-developed, microchip-based device that detects and analyzes tumor cells in the bloodstream can be used to determine the genetic signature of lung tumors, facilitating targeted therapies and monitoring genetic changes that occur during therapy.
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MGH study shows how amyloid plaques may damage brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease

Click Here to Read More … Using an advanced imaging technique that reveals how brain cells are functioning, researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease have found that levels of intracellular calcium are significantly elevated in neurons close to plaques in the brains of an Alzheimer’s mouse model.
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Bone marrow stem cells may help control inflammatory bowel disease

Click Here to Read More … MGH investigators have found that infusions of a particular bone marrow stem cell appeared to protect gastrointestinal tissue from autoimmune attack in a mouse model.
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Potential diabetes treatment selectively kills autoimmune cells from human patients

Click Here to Read More … In experiments using blood cells from human patients with diabetes and other autoimmune disorders, MGH researchers have confirmed the mechanism behind a potential new therapy for type 1 diabetes
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