Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report new insights into what nutrients fat cells metabolize to make fatty acids. The findings pave the way for understanding potential irregularities in fat cell metabolism ...
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2015
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Two phases of the cell cycle of human embryonic stem cells have been shown, for the first time, to actively employ pathways that maintain pluripotency—the potential to develop into almost any type of cell in the body.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2015
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Princeton University said farewell to late mathematician and faculty member John Nash, whose life and battle with schizophrenia were chronicled in the Russell Crowe movie "A Beautiful Mind," with a day of remembrance events ...
Mathematics
Oct 25, 2015
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A study from Patrick Matthias and his group at the FMI challenges a widely accepted model on how epigenome dynamics control the differentiation of hematopoietic cells. The plasticity of pluripotent stem cells was thought ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2015
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Five months after his remarkable life ended in a crash on a New Jersey highway, Princeton University is paying tribute to John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician remembered by colleagues for his brilliance and by ...
Mathematics
Oct 18, 2015
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If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings?
General Physics
Sep 28, 2015
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"We can rebuild him. We have the technology." - The Six Million Dollar Man, 1973
Engineering
Aug 31, 2015
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UC San Francisco researchers have for the first time developed a method to precisely control embryonic stem cell differentiation with beams of light, enabling them to be transformed into neurons in response to a precise external ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2015
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An international team of researchers has shown that NFIX, a protein that regulates neuronal stem cell activity (NSC), also has a role in driving NSC differentiation toward oligodendrocytes, a type of glial cell. These cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2015
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Singapore scientists from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have, for the first time, found further evidence of how the differentiation of pluripotent cells is tied to and controlled by the cell cycle clock. This ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2015
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