Living systems are made of complex architectural organization of various cell types in defined microenvironments. The intricate interactions between different cell types control the specific functions of the associated tissues, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2012
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Studies of the effects of oxygen deprivation in the body fat of obese animals have revealed links with the regulation of fat cell generation. Researchers at Kanazawa University have identified the role of the protein TIS7 ...
Biochemistry
Sep 25, 2013
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix that provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation. The model could lead to advances ...
Materials Science
Dec 20, 2011
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NPL scientists have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix which provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation and could lead to advances in regenerative medicine.
Biochemistry
Dec 12, 2011
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You might be old enough to remember the famous "Where's the Beef?" Wendy's commercials. This question may be asked in a different context since U.S. regulators approved the sale of lab-grown chicken meat made from cultivated ...
Biotechnology
Jun 27, 2023
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Four teams of researchers from multiple institutions in South Korea, the U.K. and China, working independently of one another, have made progress in understanding how mutations accumulate in human cells over time. All four ...
A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2012
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Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to look simultaneously at a spatial level and at a genome-wide level at epigenetic mechanisms underlying tissue development, a breakthrough with multiple scientific ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2022
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Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that they have used to direct stem cell differentiation. Out of millions of possibilities, they rapidly identified the chemical and physical structures ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2012
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Many different tissues and organs form from pluripotent stem cells during embryonic development. To date it had been known that these processes are controlled by transcription factors for specific tissues. Scientists from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 29, 2013
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