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New Mechanism Discovered in Meiosis: How Modification of an Enzyme Governs Critical Processes in Sexual Reproduction
May 3, 2013 Scientists have made an important discovery in meiosis research. They have identified a new mechanism that plays an important role in ... > full story -
Ebola's Secret Weapon Revealed
May 2, 2013 Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind one of the Ebola virus' most dangerous attributes: its ability to disarm the adaptive immune ... > full story -
Link Between Heart, Blood, and Skeletal Muscle
May 2, 2013 New research has shown that by turning on just a single gene, Mesp1, different cell types including the heart, blood and muscle can be created from stem ... > full story -
Making Cancer Less Cancerous
May 2, 2013 Researchers have identified a gene that, when repressed in tumor cells, puts a halt to cell growth and a range of processes needed for tumors to enlarge and spread to distant sites. The researchers ... > full story -
Heart Cells Change Stem Cell Behavior
May 2, 2013 Stem cells drawn from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women change their behavior when near heart cells, but do not become heart ... > full story -
'Dark Genome' Is Involved in Rett Syndrome
May 2, 2013 Researchers have described alterations in noncoding long chain RNA sequences in Rett ... > full story -
Turning Human Stem Cells Into Brain Cells Sheds Light on Neural Development
May 2, 2013 Medical researchers have manipulated human stem cells into producing types of brain cells known to play important roles in neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and autism. The ... > full story -
Stem Cell Discovery Could Aid Research Into New Treatments
May 2, 2013 Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how the properties of embryonic stem cells are controlled. Researchers have found that a protein, which switches on genes to allow embryonic stem ... > full story -
Scientists Revolutionize Creation of Genetically Altered Mice to Model Human Disease
May 2, 2013 Scientists have efficiently created mouse models with multiple gene mutations in a matter of weeks. Because the method does not require embryonic stem cells, the approach also could allow any animal ... > full story -
Adult Cells Transformed Into Early-Stage Nerve Cells, Bypassing the Pluripotent Stem Cell Stage
May 2, 2013 Scientists have converted skin cells from people and monkeys into a cell that can form a wide variety of nervous-system cells — without passing through the do-it-all stage called the induced ... > full story
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