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Once in the operating theater, surgeons attach the laboratory-generated bioimplant to the affected area of the patient’s heart. After a year, the implanted tissue adheres and adapts perfectly to the structure of the heart, covering the scar left by the heart attack. The study is the first forward-looking, or prospective, study to examine gut flora … Read more
Dr. Antoni Bayés, ICREC researcher and first author of the article, says, “This pioneering human clinical trial comes after many years of research in tissue engineering, representing a very innovative and hopeful treatment for patients with a heart scar resulting from a heart attack,” referring to PeriCord. While the current study aimed to demonstrate the … Read more
Study authors say raising awareness of UCM as a Umbilical cord blood contains oxygen and beneficial nutrients for newborns, experts say. Doctors may delay clamping a newborn’s umbilical cord to pass nutrients through their cord if they have poor breathing or a low heart rate immediately after birth. A study found that umbilical cord milking … Read more
This discovery provides compelling evidence that CD34-negative HSCs “could be more effective as a treatment option than current clinical use suggests,” says Al-Amoodi, the first author of the academic paper detailing these findings. “Given how effectively CD34-negative cells integrate with the bone marrow niche,” she explains, “their use could prolong cell regeneration in the transplant … Read more
There are normally three vessels within the cord. The one carrying oxygen and nutrients to the fetus is the umbilical vein. It passes through the umbilicus and feeds into the developing fetal circulation. There are also two umbilical arteries, though these carry deoxygenated blood and waste products, flowing in the other direction back to the … Read more
Mary Joseph noted that some patients with metastatic cancer had a new palpable swelling or nodule in their umbilicus. She did the noble deed of reporting this to Mayo, who fairly evidently hadn’t noted it himself. He went on to rather ignominiously publish these findings under his own name, without giving due credit to his … Read more
Whatever your feelings about belly buttons, one thing’s for sure—it once joined you to your mother. The umbilical cord is severed at birth to leave just a small clamped stump that progressively withers and falls away a week or two later. What you’re left with, in most cases, is a small wrinkled depression. That’s if … Read more
In addition to reconstructing the genomic alterations that the cells undergo to generate this leukemia, the study has also identified a molecular mechanism that had not been observed before in this type of leukemia and which causes the activation of a gene, called MNX1, which is frequently altered in this type of tumor. Knowledge of … Read more
The study was conducted by Anup Katheria, M.D., of the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns in San Diego, and colleagues at institutions in the United States, Canada and Poland. A team of researchers has demonstrated that some childhood leukemias originate during embryonic development, although they do not manifest after a few months … Read more
“The opportunity to study the origin of this leukemia arose from the case of a 5-month-old baby diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at the Hospital Niño Jesús in Madrid,” explains Pablo Menéndez, ICREA professor at the University of Barcelona and the Josep Carreras Institute. “The parents, who had preserved the umbilical cord blood, opened a … Read more