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Marking of tissue-specific crucial in embryonic stem cells to ensure proper function

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tissue-specific genes, thought to be dormant or not marked for activation in embryonic stem cells, are indeed marked by transcription factors, with proper marking potentially crucial for the function of tissues derived from ...


Researchers tackle protein mechanisms behind limb regeneration

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The most comprehensive study to date of the proteins in a species of salamander that can regrow appendages may provide important clues to how similar regeneration could be induced in humans.


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Why cancer cells just won't die (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When cells experience DNA damage, they'll try to repair it. But if that fails, the damaged cells are supposed to self-destruct, a process called apoptosis. A cancer researcher at Robarts Research Institute at The University ...


Researchers work on vaccine to improve immune system in newborns

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As soon as babies are born, they are susceptible to diseases and infections, such as jaundice and e-coli. For up to a month, their immune systems aren't adequately developed to fight diseases. Although these infections are ...


Researchers show 'trigger' to stem cell differentiation

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A gene which is essential for stem cells' capabilities to become any cell type has been identified by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco.


New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...


Potential cancer drug may offer new hope for asthma patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A drug being tested to treat cancer could also help patients suffering from asthma, research has suggested.


Stem-cell activators switch function, repress mature cells

Medicine & Health / Research

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In a developing animal, stem cells proliferate and differentiate to form the organs needed for life. A new study shows how a crucial step in this process happens and how a reversal of that step contributes to cancer.


Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells are not static. They can transform themselves over time — but change can have dangerous implications. Benign cells, for example, can suddenly change into cancerous ones.



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