Rafal Ciosk and his group at the FMI have identified an important regulator of the transition from germ cell to embryonic cell. LIN-41 prevents the premature onset of embryonic transcription in oocytes poised for embryonic ...
Biotechnology
Sep 18, 2014
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The CNIC scientists, working with investigators at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Sloan-Kettering Institute and the University of Kumamoto, have identified a regulatory element implicated in the function of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 2, 2014
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Martin Evans received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells".
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 4, 2014
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Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have the potential to form more than 200 distinct cell types in the human body. Although ESCs can differentiate into any specialized tissue, scientists are still unsure of how to coax these pluripotent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 18, 2014
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The way in which the sex of an organism is determined may require lifelong maintenance, finds new research from the University of Minnesota. According to the study published today in the journal Developmental Cell, sex-specific ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2014
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The world has great expectations that stem cell research one day will revolutionize medicine. But in order to exploit the potential of stem cells, we need to understand how their development is regulated. Now researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2014
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Proteins associated with the regulation of organ size and shape have been found to respond to the mechanics of the microenvironment in ways that specifically affect the decision of adult cardiac stem cells to generate muscular ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 14, 2014
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A Japanese research institute Tuesday said it was probing its own study that promised a 'game changer' way to create stem cells, a feat hailed as revolutionary for the fast-developing field.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 19, 2014
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One major challenge in stem cell research has been to reprogram differentiated cells to a totipotent state. Researchers from RIKEN in Japan have identified a duo of histone proteins that dramatically enhance the generation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) in A*STAR have developed a novel method of directing human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into highly pure populations of endoderm, a valuable cell type that gives rise ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2014
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