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Some mice stem cells divide in unexpected ways

Some mice stem cells divide in unexpected ways

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new genetic tools, Cornell researchers have found that some stem cells in mice behave dramatically different than in fruit flies, where most of the pioneering stem cell work has been ...


Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(June 21, 2009) - Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Bay ...


How an enzyme tells stem cells which way to divide

How an enzyme tells stem cells which way to divide

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Driving Miranda, a protein in fruit flies crucial to switch a stem cell's fate, is not as complex as biologists thought, according to University of Oregon biochemists. They've found that one enzyme (aPKC) ...


Scientists discover link between control of chromosome duplication and segregation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Before a cell can divide into two, first it must duplicate its genetic material--the DNA packed in its chromosomes. The two new sets of chromosomes then have to be separated from one another and correctly distributed to the ...


Proteins strangle cell during division

Biology /

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Swedish research group has discovered a new mechanism for cell division in a microorganism found in extremely hot and acidic conditions. The results of the research offer insights into evolution, but also into the functioning ...


DNA 'tattoos' link adult, daughter stem cells in planarians

Biology /

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Checkered history of mother and daughter cells explains cell cycle differences (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When mother and daughter cells are created each time a cell divides, they are not exactly alike. They have the same set of genes, but differ in the way they regulate them. New research now reveals that these regulatory differences ...


Protein helps cells duplicate correctly, avoid becoming cancer

Protein helps cells duplicate correctly, avoid becoming cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Purdue University researcher has discovered that the absence of certain proteins needed for proper cell duplication can lead to cancer.


Researchers make stem cells from developing sperm

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The promise of stem cell therapy may lie in uncovering how adult cells revert back into a primordial, stem cell state, whose fate is yet to be determined. Now, cell scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ...


Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation

Portuguese scientists working on chromosome segregation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Bi ...


Breaking BubR1 mimics genetic shuffle seen in cancer cells

Breaking BubR1 mimics genetic shuffle seen in cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study of how one protein enzyme, BubR1, helps make sure chromosomes are equally distributed during mitosis might explain how the process of cell division goes so awry in cancer, according to researchers ...