From the moment of fertilization, building a human body involves a series of choices where cells generated by cell division must elect which of the myriad types of cell they will become. How does this decision occur? New ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 27, 2017
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Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep Learning is generating more and more public awareness. Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and their partners at ETH Zurich and the Technical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 21, 2017
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A next-generation gene-editing system developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University scientists has successfully cured a genetic blood disorder in living mice using a simple IV treatment. Unlike the popular CRISPR ...
Biotechnology
Oct 26, 2016
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With over 75 million baby boomers in the U.S. alone, age-related diseases are a major concern in the health care system. The connection between aging and cancer has become a pillar in medicine: we know that as we age, our ...
Biotechnology
Oct 7, 2016
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The effectiveness of reprogramming cells into blood cells is thought to depend on the original cell type and reprogramming method. Researchers at CiRA show this assumption is actually the result of epigenetic effects, suggesting ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 28, 2016
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Researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Biological Sciences Chien Ho have developed a new method for preparing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that not only leads to the production of more native stem cells, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2016
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Simple physics may play a larger role than previously thought in helping control key bodily processes such as how the body fights infection.
General Physics
Feb 8, 2016
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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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A publication released today in the journal Science demonstrates a new, massively parallel technology to interrogate gene expression at the single-cell level using next-generation sequencing (NGS). Authors Christina Fan, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 5, 2015
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the stem cell in mice that gives rise to bone, cartilage and a key part of bone marrow called the stroma.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2015
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