News tagged with master cells

Scientists discover new way to target cancer

Scientists have discovered a new way to target cancer through manipulating a master switch responsible for cancer cell growth.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

S. Korea to revive stem cell research after scandal

President Lee Myung-Bak promised Monday to spend some $89 million restoring South Korea's reputation as a leader in stem cell research, five years after a scandal tarnished its reputation.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Master gene may shed new light on lysosomal and neurodegenerative disorders

Cells, like ordinary households, produce "garbage" – debris and dysfunctional elements – that need disposal. When the mechanism for taking out this garbage fails, rare genetic diseases called lysosomal storage disorders ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Master gene SRC-3 enables breast cancer growth, invasion

The master gene called SRC-3 (steroid receptor coactivator 3) not only enhances estrogen-dependent growth of cancer cells by activating and encouraging the transcription of a genetic message into a protein, it also sends ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle - and then watched it beat - by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Master gene that switches on disease-fighting cells identified by scientists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The master gene that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'Natural Killer' (NK) immune cells has been identified by scientists, in a study published in Nature Immunology today. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Cells are like robust computational systems

Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...

Biology /

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0