Tag: Regeneration

  • Nation & World

    Looking to retain most potent regenerative stem cells

    Early on human bodies are full of pluripotent stem cells, capable of generating any other type of cell. The problem is we lose them at birth.

    4 minutes
    Harvard researcher Mansi Srivastava.
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    How chronic stress leads to hair loss

    A Harvard study has confirmed that stress can lead to hair loss.

    6 minutes
    Hair loss concept of close up hairbrush and fallen hair.
  • Nation & World

    The genetics of regeneration

    Led by Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mansi Srivastava, a team of researchers is shedding new light on how animals perform whole-body regeneration, and uncovering a number of DNA switches that appear to control genes used in the process.

    7 minutes
    Three-banded panther worms.
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    Exercise may help make heart younger

    In a new study performed in mice, Harvard researchers found that exercise stimulates the heart to make new muscle cells, both under normal conditions and after a heart attack.

    3 minutes
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    Understanding how the intestine replaces and repairs itself

    When working stem cells within the intestine are depleted, some types of mature cells can transform themselves into stem cells, replenishing the population.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Progress in treating hearing loss

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have developed a drug cocktail that unlocks the potential to regrow inner-ear hair cells, which could help combat hearing loss.

    4 minutes
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    Creating 3-D tissue and its potential for regeneration

    “This latest work extends the capabilities of our multi-material bioprinting platform to thick human tissues, bringing us one step closer to creating architectures for tissue repair and regeneration,” says the study’s senior author, Jennifer A. Lewis of both the Wyss Institute and Harvard’s Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    4 minutes
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    Help with life’s bottleneck

    Some Harvard Medical School junior faculty members are receiving a bit of help at a difficult time in their lives, as they juggle the twin pressures of their demanding, developing careers and the consuming work of raising young families. These junior faculty have been awarded assistance through the Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship…

    4 minutes