EMBL scientists have observed how an egg cell gets rid of its centrioles - structures that play a crucial role in cell division - to ensure the proper development of the embryo. The study, published today in Journal of Cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 21, 2016
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Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research alternative to a real one.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 2, 2021
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Stem cell research led by the Babraham Institute has uncovered key new knowledge about how placental stem cells switch between maintaining a stem cell identity to setting off down the route to becoming specialised cell types.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 19, 2015
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Cell reprogramming provides an outstanding opportunity for the artificial generation of stem cells for regenerative medicine approaches in the clinic. As current cell reprogramming methods are low in efficiency, researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2020
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Researchers from the Babraham Institute have today published their latest work in the journal Cell Stem Cell describing a new subset of human embryonic stem cells that closely resemble the cells present at the genomic 'wake ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 24, 2022
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In embryo research, the "14-day rule" has been considered paramount in ethics research. Regardless of it being a law or guideline in their respective countries, all ethical scientists respect it as a de facto international ...
Other
Sep 16, 2021
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Mapping all of the chemical, or epigenetic, changes to chromosomes that affect which genes are turned on or off—and thus determine the fate of genomically identical cells in the body—usually requires a large amount of ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2013
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The same kind of contraction that fires our muscles also controls a key stage of mammalian embryo development, according to a new study published in Nature Cell Biology. The research, conducted at EMBL Heidelberg, measured ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2015
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The recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement, but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University's ...
Biotechnology
Oct 29, 2009
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Scientists at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered that key gene regulators work in pairs to trigger stem cells to differentiate into specific cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2013
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