News tagged with somatic cells
World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells
Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells - cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body. It is the first time in the ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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FANCM plays key role in inheritance
Scientists of KIT and the University of Birmingham have identified relevant new functions of a gene that plays a crucial role in Fanconi anemia, a life-threatening disease.
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Somatic stem cells obtained from skin cells for first time ever
Breaking new ground, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, have succeeded in obtaining somatic stem cells from fully differentiated somatic cells. Stem ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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S.Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth
Russian and South Korean scientists have signed a deal on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago.
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Webcam technology used to measure medications' effects on the heart
A common component in webcams may help drug makers and prescribers address a common side-effect of drugs called cardiotoxicity, an unhealthy change in the way the heart beats. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) ...
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May 03, 2011 |
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South Korean researchers say they cloned endangered cow
South Korean researchers said Wednesday they have successfully cloned a rare local species of cow in a government-funded project.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Scientists discover marker indicating the developmental potential of stem cells
Researchers in China are reporting that they have found a way to determine which somatic cells -- or differentiated body cells -- that have been reprogrammed into a primordial, embryonic-like state are the most viable for ...
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Biologists determine microRNA activity is suppressed in mouse ovum
Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania studying oocytes in mice, the immature egg cells necessary for sexual reproduction, have demonstrated an unusual behavior in microRNA, or miRNA, activity that may be the first ...
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Researchers find reproductive germ cells survive and thrive in transplants, even among species
Reproductive researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have succeeded in isolating and transplanting pure populations of the immature cells that enable male ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Tumor suppressor pulls double shift as reprogramming watchdog
A collaborative study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies uncovered that the tumor suppressor p53, which made its name as "guardian of the genome", not only stops cells that could become ...
Aug 09, 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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Researchers identify key proteins needed for ovulation
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have identified in mice two proteins essential for ovulation to take place.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 14, 2009 |
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When every photon counts
The eyes of nocturnal mammals contain particularly large numbers of the highly light-sensitive rods, the photoreceptor type used for night vision. This allows the detection of light levels millions of times ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Therapeutic cloning gets a boost with new research findings
A paper by San Antonio and Honolulu researchers offers the first direct demonstration that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Researchers generate functional neurons from somatic cells
In a new study, researchers were able to generate functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types. ...
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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Somatic cell
Somatic cells are any cells forming the body of an organism, as opposed to germline cells. In mammals, germline cells (also known as "gametes") are the spermatozoa and ova which fuse during fertilization to produce a cell called a zygote, from which the entire mammalian embryo develops. Every other cell type in the mammalian body—apart from the sperm and ova, the cells from which they are made (gametocytes) and undifferentiated stem cells—is a somatic cell: internal organs, skin, bones, blood, and connective tissue are all made up of somatic cells.
The word "somatic" is derived from the Greek word sōma, meaning "body".
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