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Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors
Jun 22, 2009 |
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In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and ...
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Building brains: Mammalian-like neurogenesis in fruit flies
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A new way of generating brain cells has been uncovered in Drosophila. The findings, published this week in the online open access journal Neural Development, reveal that this novel mode of neurogenesis is very similar to tha ...
Lab characterizes gene essential for prenatal development of nervous system
Feb 01, 2008 |
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The Stowers Institute’s Trainor Lab has demonstrated the role of a gene important to the embryonic development of the nervous system, a process that requires coordination of differentiation of immature neural cells with the ...
Run amok enzyme causes same problems in both humans and fruit flies
Dec 18, 2006 |
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An enzyme found at elevated levels in several human cancers has been linked to abnormal tumor growth in fruit flies, a discovery that provides a new model for understanding the link between stem cell biology ...
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