Lung Tissue from the Lab

Organoids could be used in diagnosis, drug development, and fundamental research

22-Mar-2022 - Laboratory studies of lung tissue usually require the removal of large amounts of human or animal tissue. Now scientists from the University of Freiburg’s Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in collaboration with American researchers in generating tiny quantities of lung tissue, so-called ...

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study

09-Sep-2016 - A new UC San Francisco study challenges the most influential textbook explanation of how the mammalian brain detects when the body is becoming too warm, and how it then orchestrates the myriad responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature—from “automatic” ...

Alzheimer's disease spreads through linked nerve cells, brain imaging studies suggest

23-Mar-2012 - Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according to researchers who report the finding in Neuron.Led by ...

Carl Zeiss Obtains Licence from University of California for Illumination Technique

25-Jul-2011 - Carl Zeiss has received a licence from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) for the commercialization of “Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy” (mSPIM), an advanced illumination technique for light sheet fluorescence microscopy.Light sheet fluorescence ...

Neuroimaging study may pave way for effective Alzheimer's treatments

12-Feb-2010 - Scientists have determined that a new instrument known as PIB-PET is effective in detecting deposits of amyloid-beta protein plaques in the brains of living people, and that these deposits are predictive of who will develop Alzheimer's disease. The finding, the result of a survey of more than 100 ...

Carl Zeiss and the University of California, San Francisco, agree on marketing rights for superresolution microscopy techniques

20-Oct-2009 - Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of “superresolution”, a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution. The technique called Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) was developed by scientists Mats ...

Novel Technology Designed to Optimize Early Detection of Potentially Fatal Immune System Dysfunction in Infants

The Immune Tolerance Institute, Sequenom and the University of California, San Francisco to Develop Advanced Diagnostic Test for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in Newborns

16-Jan-2009 - The Immune Tolerance Institute, Inc. (ITI), and Sequenom, Inc. announced a collaboration to develop an advanced newborn screening test for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) based on the pioneering work of Jennifer Puck, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). A successful ...

Stanford Scientists Pinpoint Key Proteins in Blood Stem Cell Replication

10-Oct-2008 - A family of cancer-fighting molecules helps blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Blocking the molecules’ function spurs the normally resting cells to begin proliferating strangely - making too much of one kind of ...