News tagged with germline cells
How Wolbachia bacteria controls vectors of deadly diseases
Researchers at Boston University have made discoveries that provide the foundation towards novel approaches to control insects that transmit deadly diseases such as dengue fever and malaria through their study of the Wolbachia bacter ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Controlling self-renewal of stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) are the first to establish a direct link between a conserved stem cell factor and the cell cycle regulation in ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the decades, scientists have learned a lot about the basic life processes shared by many animals — including people — by manipulating the DNA of the "lower" species, such as mice and worms. But to date, ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Recruitment of reproductive features into other cell types may underlie extended lifespan in animals
In the sense that organisms existing today are connected through a chain of life - through their parents, grandparents and other ancestors - almost a billion years back to the first animals of the pre-Cambrian era, an animal's ...
Jun 07, 2009 |
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