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Scientists uncovered molecular machinery related to stem cell fate

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...





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Forever young: Differentiation blocked in tumor stem cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new comparison of normal stem cells and cancer stem cells reveals that the cancer stem cells are abnormally trapped at an early stage of development. The research, published by Cell Press in the January issue of Cancer Ce ...


Identification of a novel neural stem cell type

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created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As published in the upcoming issue of G&D, sesearchers from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, led by Dr. Lorenz Studer, have discovered a novel type of neural stem cell, which has a broader differentiation potential than previously ...


Enzyme plays key role in cell fate

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The road to death or differentiation follows a similar course in embryonic stem cells, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell.


New research sheds light on how stem cells turn into blood cells

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created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers funded by the Canadian Cancer Society have discovered how certain messages that are carried within stem cells can trigger those cells to become blood cells. The findings are published online today in Cell Stem Ce ...


Scientists uncover the key to controlling how stem cells develop

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created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The results of a new study involving a McMaster University researcher provide insight into how scientists might control human embryonic stem cell differentiation.


'Scrawny' gene keeps stem cells healthy

'Scrawny' gene keeps stem cells healthy

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the ...


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 ...


Researchers identify key mechanism that regulates the development of stem cells into neurons

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created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel mechanism in the regulation and differentiation of neural stem cells.


Regulating hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis and leukemogenesis

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created Apr 15, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the April 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Richard Flavell (Yale University) and colleagues identify the c-Cbl protein as a critical repressor of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal. In addition to establishing a key role ...


New 'control knobs' for stem cells identified

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created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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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