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The dynamic state of embryonic stem cells

News: Stem Cells    May 29, 2010
Much of the work being done with stem cells is to find how they can be used – repair hearts, grow skin – that sort of thing. Another major effort goes into transforming adult (mature and already differentiated into specific types) cells back into one form or another of stem cell. This was prompted by [...]
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Cell development: microRNA moves between cells

News: Cell Biology    April 25, 2010
How do cells develop; how do tissues form? For example, what guides cells to form a heart? These are crucial questions for molecular biology and an area with decades of research that still feels like it’s just getting started. Case in point: Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI, New York, USA) [...]
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