As any weekend warrior understands, cartilage injuries to joints such as knees, shoulders, and hips can prove extremely painful and debilitating. In addition, conditions that cause cartilage degeneration, like arthritis and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2022
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1289
Scientists have known that sex-determination in vertebrates happens in the germ cells, a body's reproductive cells, and the somatic cells, the cells that are not reproductive cells. Yet they have not fully understood the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2022
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72
In a discovery that challenges over a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations—changes to the DNA sequence that occur in non-reproductive cells—to their offspring. ...
Evolution
Aug 31, 2022
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302
Astronauts are at higher risk for developing mutations—possibly linked to spaceflight—that can increase the risk of developing cancer and heart disease during their lifetimes, according to a first-of-its kind study from ...
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2022
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371
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan in collaboration with other researchers from around the world have discovered that recombinations of specific genomic sequences that are repeated ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2022
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195
If breast cancer is suspected, doctors carry out a biopsy. However, this is invasive, painful and costly. It also takes several days to get the results. In the future, diagnosis could be made via a liquid biopsy of a patient's ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 5, 2022
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61
Japanese scientists have successfully produced cloned mice using freeze-dried cells in a technique they believe could one day help conserve species and overcome challenges with current biobanking methods.
Biotechnology
Jul 5, 2022
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590
Unlike women, who are born with all the eggs they'll ever have, men can continue to produce sperm throughout their adult lives. To do so, they require a constant renewal of spermatogonial stem cells, which give rise to sperm.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2022
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14
A collaborative team of researchers from the National Institute for Basic Biology, the University of Tokyo, and Gunma University in Japan reported that in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, the number of mitochondria in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2022
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21
Germline stem cells (GSCs), originating from primordial germ cells (PGCs) during embryogenesis, are a group of unique adult stem cells in gonads that are essential to genetic information transfer.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2022
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