A tour of three systems for automating cell culture
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The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
A study suggests that some mouse models do not accurately mimic human molecular mechanisms of inflammatory response, but other mouse strains may fare better.
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.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
Collective cell migration relies on a directional signal that comes from the moving cluster, rather than from external cues.
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