Team identifies process producing neuronal diversity in fruit flies' visual system
New York University biologists have identified a mechanism that helps explain how the diversity of neurons that make up the visual system is generated.
New York University biologists have identified a mechanism that helps explain how the diversity of neurons that make up the visual system is generated.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2014
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When embryonic cells get the signal to specialize the call can come quickly. Or it can arrive slowly. Now, new research from Rockefeller University suggests the speed at which a cell in an embryo receives that signal has ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2014
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Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is possible to make new bone from stem-cell-like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) made from an individual animal's ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 15, 2014
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A team of researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School have discovered a protein complex that disrupts the process known as dedifferentiation, known to promote tumor development.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2014
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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have gained new insight into how both early embryonic cells and embryonic stem cells are directed into becoming specialised cell types, like pancreatic and liver cells. The results ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 7, 2014
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How do humans and other mammals get so brainy? USC researcher Wange Lu, PhD, and his colleagues shed new light on this question in a paper that will be published in Cell Reports on October 24.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2013
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In a paper in Cell Stem Cell, a team led by researchers in the Boston Children's Hospital's Stem Cell Transplantation Program reports a new approach for turning induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into hematopoietic stem ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2013
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A team of scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Harvard University has taken a major step towards treatment for heart attack, by instructing the injured heart in mice to heal by expressing a factor that triggers cardiovascular ...
Biotechnology
Sep 8, 2013
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Stem cell technology has long offered the hope of regenerating tissue to repair broken or damaged neural tissue. Findings from a team of UC Davis investigators have brought this dream a step closer by developing a method ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2013
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Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have worked out the details of a mechanism that leads undifferentiated blood stem cells to become macrophages—immune cells that attack bacteria and other foreign ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2013
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