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Regeneration-organizing cells outline the advancing edge of a regenerating tail of a tadpole.

Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate

17 May 2019

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a specialised population of skin cells that coordinate tail regeneration in frogs. These ‘...

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Patching up a broken heart

16 Jun 2017

It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when...

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Dish Life: a Cambridge Shorts film

21 Nov 2016

Science is demanding as well as exciting. Dish Life , the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to...

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Colonies of human naïve embryonic stem cells grown on mouse feeder cells

Scientists develop very early stage human stem cell lines for first time

04 Mar 2016

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so-called ‘naïve’...

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Stem cells: master builders, drug testers, immortal elements

01 Oct 2014

Today, we commence a month-long focus on research on stem cells. To begin, Professors Austin Smith and Robin Franklin discuss how Cambridge...

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Colony of human pluripotent stem cells

Scientists reset human stem cells to earliest developmental state

11 Sep 2014

Scientists have successfully ‘reset’ human pluripotent stem cells to the earliest developmental state – equivalent to cells found in an embryo before...

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Body builders: collagen scaffolds

04 Jun 2014

Miniature scaffolds made from collagen – the ‘glue’ that holds our bodies together – are being used to heal damaged joints, and could be used to...

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Functional nerve cells from skin cells

22 May 2014

Research will make the study of diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s easier, and could lead to personalised therapies for a variety of...

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A dog called Jasper during the trial

First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs

19 Nov 2012

Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).

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Plans (subject to final design selection) of the Heart and Lung Research Institute (left) and new Papworth Hospital

Expanding the heart and lungs of medicine

07 Nov 2012

Fundraising is under way for a joint Cambridge University and Papworth Hospital Heart and Lung Research Institute – to sit alongside the anticipated...

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Stem cells

Teaching old cells new tricks

24 Apr 2012

Much hyped by the media, stem cells have tremendous power to improve human health. As part of the Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative, Dr Ludovic Vallier’...

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