News tagged with embryonic development
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Protein identified that can disrupt embryonic brain development and neuron migration
Interneurons – nerve cells that function as 'dimmers' – play an important role in the brain. Their formation and migration to the cerebral cortex during the embryonic stage of development is crucial to ...
Neuroscience
Jan 14, 2013 |
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Surgery establishes penile sensation in men with spina bifida
(Medical Xpress)—A procedure to establish feeling in the penis for men with spina bifida was performed for the first time in the United States in Seattle.
Surgery
Jan 02, 2013 |
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Kindergartner undergoes very rare robotic surgery at UCLA
Leonidas Hill recently made history at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, when the 5-year-old became the first pediatric patient in the western United States to undergo transoral robotic surgery (TORS)—a ...
Surgery
Dec 24, 2012 |
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Scientists uncover cells at the origin of basal cell carcinoma
For years researchers have been trying to identify the molecular changes that occur in tumour-initiating cells from the very first oncogenic mutation to the development of invasive tumors. The most frequently ...
Cancer
Dec 21, 2012 |
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A key gene for brain development
(Medical Xpress)—Neurobiologists at the Research institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have discovered one of the key genes required to make a brain. Mutations in this gene, called TUBB5, cause ...
Genetics
Dec 14, 2012 |
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His and hers: Male hormones control differences in mammary gland nerve growth
Johns Hopkins scientists have found a surprising mechanism that gives male sex hormones like testosterone control over the gender-specific absence or presence of mammary gland nerves that sense the amount ...
Medical research
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Embryo-analysis technique may boost in vitro fertilization success
(Medical Xpress)—Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have devised a two-part approach to identify developing human embryos most likely to result in successful pregnancies. The technique could transform the ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Dec 05, 2012 |
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'Junk DNA' drives embryonic development
An embryo is an amazing thing. From just one initial cell, an entire living, breathing body emerges, full of working cells and organs. It comes as no surprise that embryonic development is a very carefully ...
Genetics
Dec 03, 2012 |
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Researchers uncover the molecular mechanisms leading to basal cell carcinoma initiation
One of the most outstanding and unresolved questions in cancer biology is the identification of cells at the origin of cancer and the understanding of the molecular changes that occur in tumor initiating cells from the first ...
Cancer
Nov 26, 2012 |
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A step forward in regenerating and repairing damaged nerve cells
A team of IRCM researchers, led by Dr. Frédéric Charron, recently uncovered a nerve cell's internal clock, used during embryonic development. The discovery was made in collaboration with Dr. Alyson Fournier's laboratory ...
Neuroscience
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Surprise origin for coronary arteries could speed advances in regenerative medicine
During embryonic development, the all-important coronary arteries arise from cells previously considered incapable of producing them, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The ...
Cardiology
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Recently discovered stem cell population could one day provide useful source material for kidney repair
Within every human kidney, millions of filtration units known as nephrons are hard at work clearing metabolic waste products from the blood. Given the dirty work they perform, one might expect that the cells ...
Medical research
Nov 07, 2012 |
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Immunobiological functioning of toll-receptors revealed
The puzzle about the ancestral function of toll-receptors has been solved. For more than 25 years, researchers from medicine and biology have been studying toll-receptors, revealing functions in immune defence ...
Medical research
Nov 01, 2012 |
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In cancer, an embryonic gene-silencing mechanism gone awry
There are some genes that are only activated in the very first days of an embryo's existence. Once they have accomplished their task, they are shut down forever, unlike most of our genes, which remain active throughout our ...
Genetics
Oct 04, 2012 |
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Dynamics of DNA packaging helps regulate formation of heart
A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their DNA. This approach to finding genetic regulators, the scientists say, may have the ...
Medical research
Sep 27, 2012 |
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