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Reprogrammable cell type depends on a single gene to keep its identity
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that a certain differentiated cell type is so ready to change its identity that it requires the constant expression of a gene called Prox1 to dissuade it.
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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.
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