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Cambridge researchers have found the strongest evidence to date that human pluripotent stem cells – cells that can give rise to all tissues of the body – will develop normally once transplanted into an embryo. ̽»¨Ö±²¥findings, published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, could have important implications for regenerative medicine.

Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge medical team.

Researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, in collaboration with the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Edinburgh, have shown how a radioactive agent developed in the 1960s to detect bone cancer can be re-purposed  to highlight the build-up of unstable calcium deposits in arteries, a process that can cause heart attack and stroke.

A protein that targets the effects of a faulty gene could offer the first treatment targeting the major genetic cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and carried out at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.