A scientific study describes for the first time the function of a signalling pathway –particularly, the pathway of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) - in the differentiation of the planarian digestive lineage. EGFR ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 20, 2016
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By genetically reprogramming the most common type of cell in mammalian connective tissue, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have generated master heart cells—primitive progenitors that form the developing ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2016
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While there are no cures for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, many researchers believe that one could be found in neural stem cells. Unfortunately, scientists do not yet have a full understanding ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 9, 2015
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When it comes to stem cells, too much of a good thing isn't wonderful: producing too many new stem cells may lead to cancer; producing too few inhibits the repair and maintenance of the body.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 31, 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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One of the longstanding debates in science, that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, permeated into the field of stem cell research, is the question of nature versus nurture influencing development. Science on stem cells thus far, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 3, 2015
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When the right gene is expressed in the right manner in the right population of stem cells, the developing mouse brain can exhibit primate-like features. In a paper publishing August 7th in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 7, 2015
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Regenerative medicine uses cells harvested from the patient's own body to heal damaged tissue. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a cell-free substrate containing proteins to which autologous cells bind and grow only after ...
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have captured thousands of progenitor cells of the pancreas on video as they made decisions to divide and expand the organ or to specialize into the endocrine cells that regulate ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2015
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Researchers have identified a population of "progenitor" cells in the skin that are solely responsible for the generation and maintenance of touch-sensing Merkel cells. The study appears in The Journal of Cell Biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2015
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