News tagged with differentiation
Stem cell breakthrough heralds new era of therapy development
Scientists at the Universities of Glasgow and Southampton have uncovered a new method for culturing adult stem cells which could lead to the creation of revolutionary stem cell therapies for conditions such as arthritis, ...
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Jul 18, 2011 |
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Brain structure adapts to environmental change
Scientists have known for years that neurogenesis takes place throughout adulthood in the hippocampus of the mammalian brain. Now Columbia researchers have found that under stressful conditions, neural stem cells in the adult ...
Neuroscience
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Finished heart switches stem cells off
It is not unusual for babies to be born with congenital heart defects. This is because the development of the heart in the embryo is a process which is not only extremely complex, but also error-prone. Scientists ...
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Jul 12, 2012 |
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Study reveals origins of body fat
(Medical Xpress)—Yale School of Medicine researchers have answered a question millions regularly and plaintively ask themselves: Where did all that fat come from?
Medical research
Feb 24, 2013 |
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The key (proteins) to self-renewing skin
In the July 6 issue of Cell Stem Cell, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine describe how human epidermal progenitor cells and stem cells control transcription factors to avo ...
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Jul 05, 2012 |
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Protein family linked to autism suppresses the development of inhibitory synapses
Synapse development is promoted by a variety of cell adhesion molecules that connect neurons and organize synaptic proteins. Many of these adhesion molecules are linked to neurodevelopmental disorders; mutations ...
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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Study identifies human melanoma stem cells
(Medical Xpress)—Cancer stem cells are defined by three abilities: differentiation, self-renewal and their ability to seed a tumor. These stem cells resist chemotherapy and many researchers posit their ...
Cancer
Aug 23, 2012 |
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The surprising ability of blood stem cells to respond to emergencies
A research team of Inserm, CNRS and MDC lead by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy (CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université) and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, ...
Immunology
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Angry? Sad? Ashamed? Depressed people can't tell difference, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—Clinically depressed people have a hard time telling the difference between negative emotions such as anger and guilt, a new University of Michigan study found.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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A brighter future for infertility treatment: study
(Medical Xpress) -- Male infertility could soon have a boost through new treatments at a sub-DNA 'epigenetic' level, according to researchers from The Australian National University.
Genetics
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Prdm16: A novel gene important for craniofacial development
In the United States, a baby is born with a facial cleft every hour, of every day of the year! Such birth defects result from both gene mutations and environmental insults. PRDM16 is a transcription factor originally described ...
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May 02, 2012 |
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New molecular structure offers first picture of a protein family vital to human health
The 20 proteins in the Wnt family are some of the most important proteins in controlling how an organism develops and grows, but for 30 years scientists have not known what these vital proteins actually look ...
Medical research
May 31, 2012 |
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Loss of essential blood cell gene leads to anemia
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered a new gene that regulates hemoglobin synthesis during red blood cell formation. The findings advance the biomedical community's understanding and treatment ...
Medical research
Nov 07, 2012 |
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Long non-coding RNA molecules necessary to regulate differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac cells
When the human genome was sequenced, biologists were surprised to find that very little of the genome—less than 3 percent—corresponds to protein-coding genes. What, they wondered, was all the rest of ...
Medical research
Jan 25, 2013 |
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Creating new tissue instead of transplanting hearts
How can progenitor cells turn into tissues? At the Vienna University of technology, chemical substances have been developed which control the differentiation of progenitor cells into heart cells. The heart ...
Medical research
Mar 04, 2013 |
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