News tagged with embryos
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Scientists report first genome sequence of frog
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the University of California, Berkeley, is publishing this week the first genome sequence of an amphibian, the African ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Research into stem cells of adults stirs hopes
A year after President Barack Obama eased restrictions on research into embryonic stem cells and pledged billions in new stimulus money for it, researchers are almost giddy with enthusiasm about progress in the field. They're ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 28, 2010 |
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To have or not to have ribs (a vertebrate story)
Like all vertebrates, snakes, mice and humans have in common a skeleton made of segments, the vertebrae. But a snake has between 200-400 ribs extending from all vertebrae, from the neck to the tail-end, whereas ...
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Apr 27, 2010 |
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Vatican to finance adult stem cell research (Update)
(AP) -- The Vatican is pushing for research of adult stem cells as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church opposes because it maintains that the destruction of the embryo amounts to the ...
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Scientists discover key step for regulating embryonic development
Deleting a gene in mouse embryos caused cardiac defects and early death, leading researchers to identify a mechanism that turns developmental genes off and on as an embryo matures, a team led by a scientist at The University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Singapore scientists make breakthrough findings on early embryonic development
Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have recently generated significant single cell expression data crucial for a detailed molecular understanding of mammalian development from fertilization to embryo implantation, ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Some women storing eggs now for pregnancies later
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt was 37 when she froze her eggs, a process technically known as oocyte cryopreservation. She knew it wouldn't guarantee her fertility. But the San Francisco-based writer had just ended a relationship ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Scientists find bacterium can halt dengue virus transmission
Dengue fever -- caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes -- threatens 2.5 billion people each year and there is no vaccine or treatment. New research by Michigan State University entomologists has found that a bacterium ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Pushy neighbour sends several messages
How does a plant ensure that one cell remains responsible for making root cells for the rest of its life? The plant embryo contains the transcription factor MONOPTEROS. This tells its neighbouring cell to become a centre ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Fertility issues in young women with breast cancer must be addressed
At a time when more and more young women are surviving breast cancer and delaying childbirth, it is important to take their needs and wishes about their future fertility into consideration when deciding on treatment, the ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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How plants put down roots
In the beginning is the fertilized egg cell. Following numerous cell divisions, it then develops into a complex organism with different organs and tissues. The largely unexplained process whereby the cells ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Japan team uncovers thalidomide mystery
Japanese scientists have uncovered how thalidomide led to deformities in children born to mothers taking the drug in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a study released Friday.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Signal proteins for plant stem cells discovered
Wageningen University (The Netherlands) biochemist Dolf Weijers and his German colleagues have discovered how stem cells in a plant embryo are formed. The cells communicate with one another via the transportation of a protein, ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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