When our organs age or wear out, their renewal usually depends on a few stem cells in the tissue, because the vast majority of differentiated cells have lost their ability to divide and generate new cells. A German-French ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 21, 2016
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In 1917, Florence Sabin, the first female member of the US National Academy of Sciences, discovered hemangioblasts, the common precursor cells for blood cells and blood vessel endothelia. Her discovery faced a great deal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 20, 2016
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Pluripotent stem cells derived from different cell types are equally susceptible to reprogramming, indicates a recent study.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 14, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Several properties of the extracellular matrix affect cellular interaction, including stem cell differentiation. Some of these are physical properties, such as topography and matrix stiffness. In an effort to ...
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a new, more precise way to control the differentiation of stem ...
Biochemistry
Nov 30, 2015
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report new insights into what nutrients fat cells metabolize to make fatty acids. The findings pave the way for understanding potential irregularities in fat cell metabolism ...
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2015
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Two phases of the cell cycle of human embryonic stem cells have been shown, for the first time, to actively employ pathways that maintain pluripotency—the potential to develop into almost any type of cell in the body.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2015
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A study from Patrick Matthias and his group at the FMI challenges a widely accepted model on how epigenome dynamics control the differentiation of hematopoietic cells. The plasticity of pluripotent stem cells was thought ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2015
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"We can rebuild him. We have the technology." - The Six Million Dollar Man, 1973
Engineering
Aug 31, 2015
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UC San Francisco researchers have for the first time developed a method to precisely control embryonic stem cell differentiation with beams of light, enabling them to be transformed into neurons in response to a precise external ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2015
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