Tag Archives: neurobiology

Stem cells to neurons to live transplant

News: Stem Cells    January 21, 2010
You know stem cell research is gaining on practical applications when it can go from Petri dish to the in vitro environment. In this case, scientists at Stanford Medical School (California, USA) started with embryonic stem cells. These undifferentiated cells were cultivated in a Petri dish to exhibit initial characteristics of cortical (brain) neuron cells [...]
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Biological clocks: RNA keeps time

News: DNA Decoding    December 1, 2009
It was suspected for centuries and confirmed by scientific studies decades ago – animals, including human beings, have internal ‘clocks.’ That is, many of our biological processes run on a schedule, and that schedule is maintained by some kind of biological equivalent to a clock. Now, in work that is highly characteristic of ‘the molecular [...]
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