Chinese team tests lung treatment that may be first to reverse damage from chronic disease affecting 700 million people
- Paper follows statement by Zuo Wei that ‘stem cell and progenitor cell-based regenerative medicine may be the biggest, if not the only, hope to cure COPD’
- During a six-minute walking test, the study group could walk around 30 metres further after treatment, deemed a ‘clinically meaningful improvemen
Autologous transplantation of P63+ lung progenitor cells for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy
Once large scale fibrosis/scar tissue formation occurs in the lungs, there is nothing you can do about it. However, new research finds out that before that happens, it's possible to use progenitor lung cells – capable of differentiating into multiple types of lung cells, to halt and even reverse previously incurable lung diseases such as COPD.
Dingjun Hao, a researcher at Xi’an Jiaotong University, was co-author of the study.
The labels on each Midjourney-generated diagram are not quite English, and there was inaccurate and grotesque depictions of rat testes, signaling pathways, and stem cells.
Yes, paying big dividends.Stem cell research paying dividend?
Not sure if it can fit into my portfolioChinese researcher trolling well-known scientific journal by submitting a stem cell research on giant "rat dck". The paper passed peer review!!
Yes, paying big dividends.
Analysis of the blood identified patterns of four proteins that predicted the onset of dementia in general, and Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia specifically, in older age.
When combined with more conventional risk factors such as age, sex, education and genetic susceptibility, the protein profiles allowed researchers to predict dementia with an estimated 90% accuracy nearly 15 years before people received clinical confirmation of the disease.
Chinese scientists use massive databank and AI to try to predict dementia 15 years before symptoms start
The use of artificial intelligence was “one of the key factors for the success of this research”, Yu Jintai, study author and neurology professor at the Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital said.
- Team finds ‘important plasma biomarkers for future dementia prediction’, with algorithm playing a crucial role in research: professor
- Researchers tapped into 50,000-strong UK Biobank cohort, 1,400 of whom developed dementia within 10 years of the initial data collection
Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia in healthy adults