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Sep. 06, 2019
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A Molecular 'Atlas' of Animal Development
In a paper in Science this week, Penn researchers report the first detailed molecular characterization of how every cell changes during animal embryonic development. The work, led by the laboratories of Perelman School of Medicine's ...
Sep. 03, 2019
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Why Are We Different Sizes?
The body size of a living creature has a direct impact on its fitness - from the simplest animal and plant organisms right up to human beings. The individual size or height is therefore an important criterion for the ability of an organism ...
Aug. 06, 2019
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Paper Trail Leads to Heart Valve Discoveries
Paper is at the heart of an experimental device developed by Rice University bioengineers to study heart disease. They are using paper-based structures that mimic the layered nature of aortic valves, the tough, flexible tissues that keep ...
Jun. 18, 2019
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A New Force for Optical Tweezers Awakens
When studying biological cells using optical tweezers, one main issue is the damage caused to the cell by the tool. Giovanni Volpe, University of Gothenburg, has discovered a new type of force that will greatly reduce the amount of light ...
Jun. 10, 2019
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Unhealthy Gut Promotes Spread of Breast Cancer
An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body, new research from the University of Virginia Cancer Center suggests.
May. 31, 2019
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Improved Diabetes in Spite of Obesity
Eating too much fat and sugar makes you overweight and unhealthy – even young children know that. But why is that, and is there anything we can do about it? In a study published in the journal Cell, Prof.
May. 02, 2019
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Pluripotency or Differentiation
Induced pluripotent stem cells can turn into any type of cell in the body or remain in their original form. In the current edition of Molecular Cell, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München describe how cells "decide" which ...
May. 02, 2019
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Specialized Plant Cells Regain Stem-cell Features to Heal Wounds
If plants are injured, cells adjacent to the wound fill the gaps with their daughter cells. However, which cells divide to do the healing and how they manage to produce cells that match the cell type of the missing tissue has been unclear. ...
Apr. 24, 2019
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Blocking Endocytosis in Plants
Plant cells absorb many important substances through a process called endocytosis. In plants, endocytosis is essential for nutrient uptake, passing on cellular signals and plant-microbe interactions. However, the vital nature of ...
Apr. 11, 2019
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A New Way of Finding Compounds that Prevent Aging
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new method for identifying compounds that prevent ageing. The method is based on a new way of determining age in cultured human cells and is reported in a study in the journal ...

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