News tagged with master cells
Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle - and then watched it beat - by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Master gene that switches on disease-fighting cells identified by scientists
(PhysOrg.com) -- The master gene that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'Natural Killer' (NK) immune cells has been identified by scientists, in a study published in Nature Immunology today. ...
Sep 13, 2009 |
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Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...
Biology /
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Cells are like robust computational systems
Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...
Jun 16, 2009 |
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