These worms' stem cells are developmental shapeshifters
Planarians are small water-dwelling worms known for their regenerative capacity. If you chop one into ten pieces, you'll end up with ten fully-formed worms.
Planarians are small water-dwelling worms known for their regenerative capacity. If you chop one into ten pieces, you'll end up with ten fully-formed worms.
Cell & Microbiology
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A set of biomarkers not traditionally associated with cell fate can accurately predict how genetically identical cells behave differently under stress, according to a UT Southwestern study. The findings, published by Cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 11, 2021
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During embryonic development, the entire nervous system, the skin and the sensory organs emerge from a single sheet of cells known as the ectoderm. While there have been extensive studies of how this sheet forms all these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2019
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How do temporal variations in protein concentrations affect biology? It's a question that biologists have only recently begun to address, and the findings are increasingly showing that random temporal changes in the amount ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 26, 2019
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Scientists have long sorted cells into different varieties based on their appearance under a microscope or, for differences that are more visually subtle, based on the behavior of a handful of genes. But in a bid to reveal ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 28, 2019
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Scientists often talk about cell fate and commitment in terms of mechanisms that control gene expression (transcription factors, chromatin remodeling, etc.). But by studying Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), rare genetic blood ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2018
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Both cell type and developmental stage can be deduced from measurements of chromatin accessibility in thousands of single cells, researchers at EMBL and the University of Washington show. They used this approach to uncover ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2018
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have determined how a protein's disordered region serves as a molecular rheostat to help regulate cell survival.
Biochemistry
Mar 6, 2018
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Random differences between cells early in development could be the key to making different cells in the body, according to new research from a team co-led by Professor Wolf Reik. Different cell types - brain, blood, skin, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 1, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a novel strategy to reprogram cells from one type to another in a more efficient and less biased manner than previous methods.
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