News tagged with mouse embryos


Artificial thymus tissue enables maturation of immune cells

The thymus plays a key role in the body's immune response. It is here where the T lymphocytes or T cells, a major type of immune defence cells, mature. Different types of T cells, designated to perform specific ...

Immunology created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover primitive gut's role in left-right patterning

Scientists have found that the gut endoderm has a significant role in propagating the information that determines whether organs develop in the stereotypical left-right pattern. Their findings are published 6 March 2012 in ...

Medical research created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Artificial 'womb' unlocks secrets of early embryo development

(Medical Xpress) -- Pioneering work by a leading University of Nottingham scientist has helped reveal for the first time a vital process in the development of the early mammalian embryo.

Medical research created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify crucial cell and signaling pathway in placental blood stem cell niche

(Medical Xpress) -- UCLA stem-cell researchers have identified a certain type of cell and a signaling pathway in the placental niche that play a key role in stopping blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood ...

Medical research created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists use an old theory to discover new targets in the fight against breast cancer

Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have ...

Cancer created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SUMO-snipping protein plays crucial role in T and B cell development

When SUMO grips STAT5, a protein that activates genes, it blocks the healthy embryonic development of immune B cells and T cells unless its nemesis breaks the hold, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...

Genetics created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mutation in gene that's critical for human development linked to arrhythmia

Arrhythmia is a potentially life-threatening problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, causing it to go too fast, too slow or to beat irregularly. Arrhythmia affects millions of people worldwide.

Genetics created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cleft lip corrected genetically in mouse model

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College used genetic methods to successfully repair cleft lips in mice embryos specially engineered for the study of cleft lip and cleft palate. The research breakthrough may show the way ...

Genetics created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New model for studying germ cell tumors in testes enlists embryonic stem cells

A team of researchers from Spain and Switzerland have developed a new model for studying the development of testicular germ cell tumors by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous tubules in mouse models, ...

Cancer created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0