To date, it has been assumed that the differentiation of stem cells depends on the environment they are embedded in. A research group at the University of Basel now describes for the first time a mechanism by which hippocampal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 18, 2016
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Scientists have discovered a new method of creating human stem cells which could solve the big problem of the large-scale production needed to fully realise the potential of these remarkable cells for understanding and treating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 13, 2016
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Researchers from the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Research Institute of Physical Chemical Medicine and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have concluded that reprogramming does not create differences ...
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Jun 13, 2016
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Neural stem cells are responsible for the formation of differentiated daughter cells in the developing brain. If no new cells are needed, the stem cells may enter a resting phase called quiescence. Biologists at Johannes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 20, 2016
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Continually producing sperm over a long time is important to procreate the next generation. Researchers of the National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan, Ms. Kanako Ikami and Prof. ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2015
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The role played by telomeres in mammalian cells has been known for several years. It is also known that these non-coding DNA sequences, which are found at the ends of the chromosomes, protect them and are necessary to ensure ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2015
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Inside the microscopic world of the mouse hair follicle, Yale Cancer Center researchers have discovered big clues about how stem cells regenerate and die. These findings, published April 6 in the journal Nature, could lead ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2015
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Figuring out how blank slate stem cells decide which kind of cell they want to be when they grow up—a muscle cell, a bone cell, a neuron—has been no small task for science.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2014
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A time-lapse study of human embryonic stems cells has identified bottlenecks restricting the formation of colonies, a discovery that could lead to improvement in their use in regenerative medicine.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 12, 2014
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When an embryonic stem cell is in the first stage of its development it has the potential to grow into any type of cell in the body, a state scientists call undifferentiated.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2013
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