News tagged with mouse embryos

Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved

Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (64) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Before animals first walked on land, fish carried gene program for limbs

Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers have discovered.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

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

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cancer-like way upon implanting in uterus

Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers report today. These stem cells start using ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unearthing King Tet: Key protein influences stem cell fate

Take a skin cell from a patient with Type 1 diabetes. Strip out everything that made it a skin cell, then reprogram it to grow into a colony of pancreatic beta cells. Implant these into your patient and voilà! ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sequencing of first frog genome sheds light on treating disease

A pair of University of Houston researchers contributed to the assembly of the first comprehensive DNA sequence of an amphibian genome, which will shed light on the study of embryonic development, with implications ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Some neural tube defects in mice linked to enzyme deficiency

Women of childbearing age can reduce the risk of having a child born with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida by eating enough folate or folic acid. However, folate prevents only about 70 percent of these defects.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Atlas of an organism

While every cell of an organism contains the same genes only a proportion are expressed in any tissue at a given stage in development. Knowing the extent of gene transcription is valuable and a team of European researchers ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Discovery of genetic toggle switch inches closer to possible diabetes cure

Scientists have identified a master regulator gene for early embryonic development of the pancreas and other organs, putting researchers closer to coaxing stem cells into pancreatic cells as a possible cure ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Epigenetic mark guides stem cells toward their destiny

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not all stem cells are completely blank slates. Some, known as adult stem cells, have already partially embraced their fates and are capable of becoming only cells of a particular type of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells

Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells - the stem cells that can give r ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Under the microscope: Mouse embryo

Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. They will be released every Monday and Thursday for the next couple of months and you can see them ...

Other Sciences / Other

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

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis may pose neurological risks

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has helped many couples conceive healthy children and is generally considered a safe practice. However, a new long-term analysis of PGD in mice suggests that this procedure may increase ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigating the development of mechanosensitivity

Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises. By measuring electrical impulses in the sensory neurons of mice, the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0