Scientists from Newcastle University have shown that human embryonic stem cells move by travelling back and forth in a line, much like ants moving along their trails.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2018
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Stem cell researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital have, for the first time, profiled a highly elusive kind of stem cell in the early embryo—a cell so fleeting that it makes its entrance and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 6, 2018
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The factors that shape the destiny of a cell, like that of a fully formed person, remain something of a mystery. Why, for example, does one stem cell in a human embryo become a neuron rather than a muscle cell? And why does ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2018
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Human embryonic stem cells can be guided to become the precursor tissue of the central nervous system, research led by the University of Michigan has demonstrated.
Materials Science
May 22, 2018
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For years, researchers have known that a gene called EAK-7 plays an important role in determining how long worms will live. But it remained unclear whether the gene had a counterpart in humans and – if it did – how that ...
Biotechnology
May 14, 2018
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Scientists have for the first time created embryo-like structures in the lab from stem cells, without recourse to eggs or sperm, they reported Wednesday.
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2018
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A new study in the journal Nature Cell Biology has uncovered information about a key stage that human embryonic cells must pass through just before an embryo implants. The research, led by UCLA biologist Amander Clark, could ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2018
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Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have generated an atlas of the human genome using a state-of-the-art gene editing technology and human embryonic stem cells, illuminating the roles that our genes play in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 23, 2018
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Over a decade ago, Shinya Yamanaka and Kazutoshi Takahashi made a discovery that would revolutionize biomedical research and trigger the field of regenerative medicine. They learned how to reprogram human adult cells into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 10, 2018
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The theory that cancer progression involves tumor cells acquiring features similar to those of stem cells has gained strength in the scientific community. According to this theory, tumor cells become dissimilar from their ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2018
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