News tagged with differentiation
Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells
Nov 05, 2009 |
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The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research ...
Scientists turn stem cells into precursors for sperm, eggs
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Human embryonic stem cells derived from excess IVF embryos may help scientists unlock the mysteries of infertility for other couples struggling to conceive, according to new research from the Stanford University School of ...
Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed ...
Inventive combination of research approaches identifies new target for treating leukemia
Oct 05, 2009 |
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New research integrates sophisticated interdisciplinary approaches to solve a molecular mystery that may lead to alternative therapeutic strategies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The study, published by Cell Press in the ...
Environmental factors instruct lineage choice of blood progenitor cells
Jul 15, 2009 |
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The research team led by Dr. Timm Schroeder, stem cell researcher at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany, has developed a new bioimaging method for observing the differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) at ...
Gene's novel role may provide key to treating liver and neurodegenerative diseases
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from apoptosis, or programmed ...
Scientists uncovered molecular machinery related to stem cell fate
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The Stowers Institute's Xie Lab has revealed how the BAM protein affects germline stem cell differentiation and how it is involved in regulating the quality of stem cells through intercellular competition. The work was published ...
Social class, gender and ethnic group determine adolescents' sexual-affective education
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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The social class, the gender and the ethnic group are three essential dimensions, not only in the social differentiation, but also in the affective sexual education of the adolescents, where it is necessary to take part in ...
New study yields clue to how stem cells form
Apr 16, 2009 |
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An Emory University study shows some of the first direct evidence of a process required for epigenetic reprogramming between generations - a finding that could shed more light on the mechanisms of fertilization, ...
The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Y chromosome - it's time X got some attention. In the first evolutionary study of the chromosome associated with being female, University of California, Berkeley, biologist Doris ...
Creating ideal neural cells for clinical use
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have developed a protocol to rapidly differentiate human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into neural progenitor cells that may be ideal for transplantation. ...
Researchers identify growth factor that stimulates adult stem cells
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, collaborating with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, has identified for the first time a critical ...
Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critical role in the pathways that control decisions for differentiation or self-renewal in both human embryonic ...
Exclusive marketing contracts best when competition is fierce
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agencies selling marketing services are often faced with the dilemma of whether to sell a service exclusively to a single firm in a given market category or to work with more than one.
New 'control knobs' for stem cells identified
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Dec 03, 2008 |
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Natural changes in voltage that occur across the membrane of adult human stem cells are a powerful controlling factor in the process by which these stem cells differentiate, according to research published by Tufts University ...
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