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New technique to image cell interior

November 4, 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see tiny structures inside the nucleus of the cell for the first time.Recent advances...

Henrietta Lacks’ family win recognition for immortal cell line

September 4, 2013
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose tumour cells revolutionised modern medicine, have been granted a say in how the cells are used, sixty years after her death. The...

Mouse heart beats again with human stem cells

August 15, 2013
A decellularised mouse heart was able to contract and beat again when it was rebuilt with human stem cells.The research, reported in Nature Communications, suggests regenerating a functional organ by...

Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013
A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a key clinical assay for bilirubin, a critical indicator of liver function, haemolysis and jaundice.A team from...

3D printed shapes mimic living tissue

May 15, 2013
A custom-built programmable 3D printer that can print materials with the properties of living tissues has been developed by Oxford University researchers.The new type of printed material consists of thousands...

Mathematicians solve a foamy problem

May 5, 2013
Two researchers from University of California Berkeley have now described mathematically the successive stages in the complex life of foamy bubbles – with implications as diverse as plastics and cell...

How a brain cell can change its mind

March 13, 2013
Harvard stem cell biologists have turned one type of already differentiated neurons into another within the brain.The discovery, which is detailed in Nature Cell Biology, holds promise for a range...

Ovary development theory overturned

February 14, 2013
The theory of ovary development has been overturned by new research from the University of Adelaide. The findings provide new insights into women’s health and fertility and will result in...

Protein SP2 crucial to neuron creation

January 17, 2013
A cell cycle regulator protein called Sp2 may be the key to the proper creation of neurons from stem cells, according to research conducted at North Carolina State University. Improved...

X-ray laser to slay sleeping sickness parasite

January 14, 2013
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has revealed the three-dimensional structure of an important enzyme vital to the functioning of the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.An international team of scientists...

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