News tagged with differentiation

New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code

Imagine reading an entire book, but then realizing that your glasses did not allow you to distinguish "g" from "q." What details did you miss? Geneticists faced a similar problem with the recent discovery ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Genetic packing: Successful stem cell differentiation requires DNA compaction, study finds

(Phys.org) -- New research findings show that embryonic stem cells unable to fully compact the DNA inside them cannot complete their primary task: differentiation into specific cell types that give rise to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists make stunning inner space observations

Scientists using high-powered microscopes have made a stunning observation of the architecture within a cell – and identified for the first time how the architecture changes during the formation of gametes, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers establish link between Nanog, FAK proteins

Vita Golubovskaya, PhD, and five colleagues from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have published basic research in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) about two proteins that are overexpressed, or produced in e ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3D

Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A protein that regulates fat cell production and cell division

Swiss scientists have teased out the role that a protein known as SMRT plays in regulating the production of fat cells. And in the process, they made another, unexpected discovery; this protein also plays ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cells 'by default'

In spite of considerable research efforts around the world, we still do not know the determining factors that confer stem cells their main particular features: capacity to self-renew and to divide and proliferate. The scientist ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fear of threats associated with social circle size

Humans' fear level toward threats is associated with the typical size of our social circles, according to a report published Apr. 11 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study demonstrates cells can acquire new functions through transcriptional regulatory network

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Influencing stem cell fate: New screening method helps scientists identify key information rapidly

Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that they have used to direct stem cell differentiation. Out of millions of possibilities, they rapidly identified the chemical and physical structures ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists make groundbreaking discovery on stem cell regulation

A*STAR scientists have for the first time, identified that precise regulation of polyamine levels is critical for embryonic stem cell (ESC) self-renewal – the ability of ESCs to divide indefinitely – and directed ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seeking cheaper, nimbler satellites and safer disposal of space debris

A new research program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks to define the next-generation of low-orbit satellites that are more maneuverable, cheaper to launch, easier to hide, and longer lived. Additionally, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Establishing a new scalar curvature flow method

Mathematically, is it possible to continuously deform a rough sphere into a perfect sphere? Under what situations can we solve the differential equations?

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Building blocks of early Earth survived collision that created moon

Unexpected new findings by a University of Maryland team of geochemists show that some portions of the Earth's mantle (the rocky layer between Earth's metallic core and crust) formed when the planet was much smaller than it is now, an ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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