Various forms of complex multicellular organisms have evolved on Earth, ranging from simple Volvox carterii, which possess only two cell types, to humans, with more than 200 cell types. All originate from a single zygote, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 7, 2021
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Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have taken a deep dive into a previously overlooked family of proteins and discovered that they are essential to maintaining the energy that cells need to grow ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 12, 2021
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Researchers from the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in collaboration with scientists at Oxford University have published a paper in Cell reporting the function of LanCL proteins. These proteins are found in eukaryotic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2021
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Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of time—up to 20 days. The research, despite its ethical concerns, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2021
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Single-cell transcriptomic methods allow scientists to study thousands of individual cells from living organisms, one-by-one, and sequence each cell's genetic material. Genes are activated differently in each cell type, giving ...
Biotechnology
Apr 8, 2021
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The hormone auxin is of central importance for the development of plants. Scientists at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen have now developed a novel sensor that ...
Biotechnology
Apr 7, 2021
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How do we become a complex, integrated multicellular organism from a single cell?
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2021
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The skin is the largest organ in the human body, and its outermost part, called the epidermis, is replenished every three weeks. The cells fueling this renewal of the epidermal stem cells are found in specialized areas or ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 26, 2021
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A cast of so-called 'nurse cells' surrounds and supports the growing fruit fly egg during development, supplying the egg—or 'oocyte'—with all the nutrients and molecules it needs to thrive. Long viewed as passive in this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2021
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What if you found out that you could heal using only a finger? It sounds like science fiction, reminiscent of the 1982 movie "E.T." Well, it turns out that your body's own cells can do something similarly unexpected. Researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2021
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