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Engineers at Duke University just proved dead heart muscles in human patients can still be repaired. The fully functioning artificial human heart muscle developed was big enough to patch over damage usually seen in heart attack patients. Ilia Shadrin, a biomedical engineering doctoral student at Duke University, said the patch is a way to replace lost muscle with tissue made outside the body. Current therapies target to reduce the symptoms from the damage caused by the attack to the heart. However

Feline Leukemia (FeLV) was first discovered in the 1960’s. FeLV, is a virus transmitted by RNA, that only felines can get. It is not transmittable to humans, dogs, or any other animals. FeLV is actually the leading cause of death in cats, killing 85% of those infected within 3 years of diagnosis. With that being said, it’s very important for cat owners to regularly take their cats to the veterinarian for check-ups, as well as keeping them on a proper and healthy diet, which in turn will help prevent

Stem Cell Banking: An insight into the future of Medicine Today it's the most talked about topic amongst the researchers, seems that the future of medicine is all in these stem cells which can regenerate organs and tissues. But what are they? The term stem has a double origin: it derives from the Greek word “stamis”, indicating the mast of a ship, and from Latin stamen, which is the thread of the warp of the fabric. In English the verb to stem means to derive, and is perhaps the most appropriate

Originally, I chose to do anemia as my topic in general, but was asked to focus on Pernicious Anemia. I chose this topic because I have a two-year old niece that has this condition, and I wanted to find out more about the condition than what I already knew. From my research, I have learned and will be discussing the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, resolution and the latest research on Pernicious anemia. What is anemia? Anemia is a condition that affects one’s blood where there

My focus is going to be on a specific form of leukemia, called Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, or AML3. It is called AML3 because it is the M3 subtype of a form of leukemia called Acute Myelocytic Leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. It forms when there is a mutation in the stem cells that form into various blood cells. This mutation causes the cells to replicate uncontrollably, and are put into the bloodstream while still immature. Since the blood is full of these immature

When you ask most people, stem cell research and transplants don’t mean anything to them, and some don’t even know what stem cells are. Are you one of those people? Are you somebody who is completely blind to the hope this wonderful thing can bring? Stem cells are special cells your body creates that have specific purposes. As said perfectly by the Mayo Clinic staff, “Stem cells are the body's raw materials — cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated“(1). These cells

Having a child can be one of the most exciting experiences for a parent. However, bringing a child into the world can also be a very scary experience. Every parent’s wish is to have a healthy baby, but sadly this is not always a reality. When a child is born with a disease the whole dynamic of a family changes, doctor visits and medication become the new norm. Sometimes families are even faced with the difficult decision of life or death for their child, which can only be cured by using donations

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large amount of abnormal cells called macroglobulin. It is also called lymphoplasmacytiod because of the disease resembles to Multiple myeloma (cancer of plasma cells) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cancer of lymphoma). The WM cells grow mainly in the bone marrow in which causes to have pancytopenia. Symptoms of WM include fever, weight loss (without trying hard), night sweats, and swollen lymph nodes. The common symptom of WM is weakness because of anemia. Neuropathy is numbness and painful sensation (pins

system. According to Thomas, J. et al in their article entitled Mechanisms of mobilization of hematopoietic progenitors with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, GCSF is one of the major inducers of hematopoietic stem cells’ release from the bone marrow to the blood. This is an important characteristic to