News tagged with mother cell
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Team shows how evolution can allow for large developmental leaps
How evolution acts to bridge the chasm between two discrete physiological states is a question that's long puzzled scientists. Most evolutionary changes, after all, happen in tiny increments: an elephant grows a little larger, ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Deaths in the family cause bacteria to flee
(PhysOrg.com) -- The deaths of nearby relatives has a curious effect on the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus -- surviving cells lose their stickiness.
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Research team clarifies mechanics of first new cell cycle to be described in more than 20 years
An international team of researchers led by investigators in the U.S. and Germany has shed light on the inner workings of the endocycle, a common cell cycle that fuels growth in plants, animals and some human tissues and ...
Oct 30, 2011 |
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Study: Cancer may pass from mother to unborn child
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder
(June 21, 2009) - Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Bay ...
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Cells send dirty laundry home to mom
Understanding how aged and damaged mother cells manage to form new and undamaged daughter cells is one of the toughest riddles of ageing, but scientists now know how yeast cells do it. In a groundbreaking ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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At the crossroads of chromosomes: Study reveals structure of cell division's key molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- On average, one hundred billion cells in the human body divide over the course of a day. Most of the time the body gets it right but sometimes, problems in cell replication ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Study reveals new role for RNA interference during chromosomal replication
At the same time that a cell's DNA gets duplicated, a third of it gets super-compacted into repetitive clumps called heterochromatin. This dense packing serves to repress or "silence" the DNA sequences within -- which could ...
Oct 16, 2011 |
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How old yeast cells send off their daughter cells without the baggage of old age
The accumulation of damaged protein is a hallmark of aging that not even the humble baker's yeast can escape. Yet, aged yeast cells spawn off youthful daughter cells without any of the telltale protein clumps. ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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