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Gene directs stem cells to build the heart

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created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers have shown that they can put mouse embryonic stem cells to work building the heart, potentially moving medical science a significant step closer to a new generation of heart disease treatments that use human stem ...


Scientists develop method for generating novel types of stem cells

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created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The study, which appears in the December 18 online version of Cell Stem Cell and the January 2009 print edition of the journal, provides proof of principle that alternative sources of stem cells can be created.





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Researchers discover important tool in understanding differentiation in human embryonic stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 24, 2007 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute have described how an existing genetic tool can be used to study how human embryonic stem cells differentiate. The research appears in the November 2007 issue ...


Stanford scientists turn adult skin cells into muscle and vice versa

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In a study featured on the cover of the May issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers describe how they are able to reprogram human adult skin cells into other cell types in order to decipher the elusive mechanisms underlying reprog ...


Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells

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created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...


Large DNA stretches, not single genes, shut off as cells mature

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created Jan 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Experiments at Johns Hopkins have found that the gradual maturing of embryonic cells into cells as varied as brain, liver and immune system cells is apparently due to the shut off of several genes at once rather than in individual ...


Scientists find molecular differences between embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed skin cells

Embryonic stem cells, reprogrammed skin cells have inherent differences

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two ...


Stem cell discovery sheds light on placenta development

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created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have explored the first fork in the developmental road, getting a new look at what happens when fertilized eggs differentiate to build either an embryo or a placenta.


From stem cells to organs: The bioengineering challenge

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created Feb 16, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For more than a decade, Peter Zandstra has been working at the University of Toronto to rev up the production of stem cells and their descendants. The raw materials are adult blood stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The ...


Genes that control embryonic stem cell fate identified

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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 ...


Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation

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created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts can make a whole mouse

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In a paper publishing online July 23 in Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, Dr. Shaorong Gao and colleagues from the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing, China, report an important advance in the charac ...



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