Researchers track DNA modifications and gene expression in stem cells as they differentiate.
Researchers track DNA modifications and gene expression in stem cells as they differentiate.
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Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Microarrays help keep induced pluripotent stem cell lines in check, from start to finish.
Flies turning blue help researchers link the deterioration of the intestinal barrier to age-related death.
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
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During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Some of the 200 or so human embryonic stem cell lines approved for federal funding may have been derived from sperm or eggs of unconsenting donors.