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Tracing One Billion Years of Plant Life
A new study published in Nature traces the genetic histories of the last billion years of plant life on Earth. Yes, that's billion with a "b."
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Discovery of "Cellular Bike Couriers" Clue to Disease Spreading
A previously unknown component of our cells that delivers proteins like a bike courier in heavy traffic could shed light on the mechanisms that allow cells to spread in diseases such as cancer.
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Milk From Teeth: Dental Stem Cells Can Generate Milk-Producing Cells
Stem cells of the teeth can contribute to the regeneration of non-dental organs, namely mammary glands. According to a new study from researchers at the University of Zurich, dental epithelial stem cells from mice can generate mammary ducts and even milk-producing cells when transplanted into mammary glands.
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New Signaling Systems Found in Human Cells
Researchers have expanded the known network of peptides that activate GPCRs, which could open up new avenues for drug development.
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Unlocking the Black Box of Embryonic Development
A team of scientists has created a method to allow primate embryos to grow in the laboratory longer than ever before, enabling the researchers to obtain molecular details of key developmental processes for the first time.
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Visualizing Complex Cellular Machinery To Understand Its Role in Cancer
Scientists have developed a high-resolution visual map of a multi-protein machine called the RSC complex, elucidating how the complex works and what role it has in healthy and cancer cells.
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Drug Compound "Cocktail" Proves Toxic to Leukemia Cells
A combination of drugs that affect mitochondria – the power plants inside cells – may become the best weapons yet to fight acute myeloid leukemia, according to a new study.
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Tumors Transform Gut “Brain Cells” Into Tumor Growth Promoters
New research demonstrates that when enteric glial cells are exposed to secretions from colon tumors, the glial cells convert into promoters of tumor growth.
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Preclinical Study of Gene Therapy for Epilepsy Shows Long-term Suppression of Seizures
Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Medical University of Innsbruck have developed a new therapeutic concept for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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One Way or Another? How DNA is Unwound
From home to office and back. The road is the same, and yet the outbound journey is longer than the inbound journey. Why is that? The reason is the obstacles the car driver usually finds on his way to work, which are absent on the way back. Now, replace the road with DNA strands and you will have grasped the crux of the discovery just published by an international research group on the journal PNAS.
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