Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that diffusion plays an unexpected role in cell differentiation during the early stages of development in the embryos of Drosophila, or fruit flies. Instead of spreading ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2017
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A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem cells in cancer.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2017
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University of Oregon biologists have figured out how zebrafish perfectly regenerate amputated fins with a precisely organized skeleton.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 28, 2017
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Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds.
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2017
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Johns Hopkins scientists report success in using a cocktail of cell-signaling chemicals to further wind back the biological clock of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), giving the cells the same flexibility researchers have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 14, 2016
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A previously unknown gene plays a critical part in the development of the human embryo during the first days of fertilisation, researchers from Karolinska Institutet show. The paper, which is published in the scientific journal ...
Biotechnology
Sep 15, 2016
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Latest analysis shows that human limbs share a genetic programme with the gills of cartilaginous fishes such as sharks and skates, providing evidence to support a century-old theory on the origin of limbs that had been widely ...
Evolution
Apr 19, 2016
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65 years ago, the famed behavioral endocrinologist Frank Beach wrote an article in The American Psychologist entitled 'The Snark was a Boojum'. The title refers to Lewis Carroll's poem 'The Hunting of the Snark', in which ...
Biotechnology
Jul 20, 2015
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Researchers in the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center are visually capturing the first process of chromosome alignment and separation at the beginning of mouse development. The findings could lead to answers ...
Biotechnology
Jun 9, 2015
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University of Queensland scientists have brought a retired sex gene in mammals back to life, proving it can still switch on male development in mice despite not having done so for millions of years.
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2015
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