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Cell Biology

Embryonic Stem Cell Researchers Reeling from Judge’s Decision
September 3, 2010
...intercepted with adult stem cells.  “Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCB) used to treat cultured rat brain cells (astrocytes) deprived of oxygen appear to protect astrocytes from cell death after...
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Amazing Facts

Specialized Molecules Make Cells Work
August 9, 2010
Reports continue to show that vital cell processes depend on finely-tuned proteins and RNA molecules.  Most of the papers that discuss these specialized molecules fail to mention how they might...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cell News: Adults Still Lead
August 6, 2010
Stem cells are still hot.  Most of the significant findings are coming from adult stem cells (AS) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) rather than embryonic stem cells (ES).  For...
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Cell Biology

Heal the Blind with Stem Cells
June 30, 2010
...in one eye by burns or acid.  Stem cells taken from the limbus, a disk surrounding the iris, and transplanted onto the damaged cornea, were able to regrow corneal cells...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cells: Hope, Politics, Charity, and Clarity
May 30, 2010
...or whether adult stem cells, such as induced pluripotent stem cells, could work just as well. An article on both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells in Science Daily this...
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Uncategorized

Stem Cells Promise Regeneration
March 31, 2010
...that none of these stories talked about embryonic stem cells.  Most of the stories about embryonic stem [ES] cells this month discussed efforts to understand how they grow and differentiate...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cell News: Cancer Cures Coming?
January 18, 2010
...creation and destruction of human embryos and/or the harvesting of human egg cells.  To revisit the shameful news about embryonic stem cells over the last decade, type “embryonic stem cells”...
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Dinosaurs

Dakota Dino Reveals Skin Cells
July 1, 2009
“Absolutely amazing” and “absolutely gobsmacking” are exclamations made by scientists analyzing the fossilized skin of a hadrosaur known as Dakota. The researchers found cell structures and organic matter in the...
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Amazing Facts

How Cells Proofread DNA Is Still Mysterious
June 29, 2009
An amazing fact about DNA transcription is that the machinery not only copies DNA onto RNA, but checks it for errors.  A story in Science Daily says that researchers would...
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Amazing Facts

Cells Use Cloud Computing
June 19, 2009
...slack if a major server fails.  Scientists are finding that cells have been using this technology all along.     Science Daily reported on work by biologists in Spain and...
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Cell Biology

Who Needs Embryonic Stem Cells?
May 3, 2009
...is going “fast and furious” on induced pluripotent stem cells, in which adult cells can be made like embryonic stem cells without the need to create and destroy human embryos. ...
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Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Blood Protein, Cells Recovered
April 30, 2009
...unknown is the chemistry behind such preservation. The paper also includes photographs of structures that resemble cells.  While they were cautious not to call them cells, they sure look like...
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Amazing Facts

Better Solar Cells with Diatoms
April 14, 2009
...of the most advanced materials in the world.”  OK, now the subject: how to build better solar cells, by imitating diatoms.  See the story on Science Daily.     The...
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Health

Stem Cells Polarize Ethics
April 7, 2009
...“embryonic” and just talk about “stem cells,” but there is a big difference in the ethics of one over the other.  Embryonic stem cells require harvesting a human embryo. Adult...
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Cell Biology

Elect Obama, Get Embryonic Stem Cells
March 8, 2009
...to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient’s own skin cells.” ESC is not completely without promise.  Science Daily reported that embryonic stem cells are being studied...
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