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Cancer stem cells generated by cancer outgrowth
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Scientists have discovered that growing mouse skin cells in spheres can lead to generation of cells with properties of cancer stem cells, even without genetic manipulation of stem cell genes. This unexpected finding, published ...
Liver cell adenoma or hepatocellular carcinoma?
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Liver cell adenoma (LCA) is a benign tumor of the liver parenchyma that is associated with the use of oral contraceptives or with glycogen-storage disease. A group in Japan reported a case of LCA found in a 40-year-old woman ...
New cell imaging can identify cancer cells
Mar 13, 2006 |
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Purdue University scientists say fluorescence that illuminates a specific protein within a cell's nucleus may lead to individualized cancer treatments.
Mature B cells reprogrammed to stem-cell-like state
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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Fully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in the April 18 issue of Cell.
Genes that control embryonic stem cell fate identified
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate. The genes may either prod or restrain stem cells from drifting into a kind of limbo, they suspect. The limbo lies between the embryonic ...
Scientists create new cloning method
Oct 04, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they have achieved a one-step somatic cell nuclear transfer procedure using a differentiated cell as a nuclear donor.
How smoking encourages infection
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Now new research published in the open access journal BMC Cell Biology shows that nicotine affects neutrophils, the short-lived white blood cells that defend against infection, by reducing their ability to seek and destro ...
Study shows how daughter is different from mother
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Aug 19, 2008 |
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The mother-daughter relationship can be difficult to understand. Why are the two so different? Now a Northwestern University study shows how this happens. In yeast cells, that is.
'Sister' factors promote survival of blood-system stem cells
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Stem cells of any kind are defined by their eternal nature, reproducing themselves and providing a pool of cells from which more differentiated tissues arise.
Enzyme plays key role in cell fate
Jun 04, 2008 |
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The road to death or differentiation follows a similar course in embryonic stem cells, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
Hitting where it hurts: Exploiting cancer cell 'addiction' may lead to new therapies
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A new study uncovers a gene expression signature that reliably identifies cancer cells whose survival is dependent on a common signaling pathway, even when the cells contain multiple other genetic abnormalities. The research, ...
United we stand; divided we fall
Jul 15, 2009 |
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In the July 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues make the unprecedented observation of paracrine signaling during Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation.
Scientists find key to strengthening immune response to chronic infection
Aug 06, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute has identified a protein that could serve as a target for reprogramming immune system cells exhausted by exposure to chronic viral infection into more effective "soldiers" against ...
DNA 'tattoos' link adult, daughter stem cells in planarians
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Unlike some parents, adult stem cells don't seem to mind when their daughters get a tattoo. In fact, they're willing to pass them along. Using the molecular equivalent of a tattoo on DNA that adult stem cells (ASC) pass to ...
Cell division studies hint at future cancer therapy
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Jan 22, 2008 |
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When a cell’s assets get divided between daughter cells, Dr. Quansheng Du wants to make sure both offspring do well.
