Stem cells can fight disease from the inside out. But not all treatments are created equal. The promise of stem cell therapy ...

For example, high levels might tell a cell to become a nerve cell, medium levels tell it to become a skin cell, and low levels might signal a cell to become connective tissue. The organizer cells ...

In both humans and fruit flies, the heart's tissues arise from ... a tube-like shape that will become the heart. For the ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs.

and Rho-family GTPases in many of the aforementioned processes have recently become clear, and their contributions to cell and tissue polarity are discussed below.

Body tissues grow by increasing the number of cells. Cells in many tissues in the body divide and grow very quickly until we become adults. When we are adults many cells mature and become specialised ...

But surprisingly, most mutated cells never become cancer. Dr. Rod Bremner ... mice with mutated Rb genes didn’t develop tumors in most tissues, even though the cells were dividing in unusual ...

It turns out that the "super stem cells" are good at producing a certain type of tissue that forms during ... for their ability to implant and become successful pregnancies," says Robert Bone.

These changes are made possible by the metamorphosis that breast tissue cells undergo ... Essentially, they become dormant. Because of the major similarities between entry into dormancy and ...

Not only does this tissue protect these key components of our nervous system, but just a few years ago, it was discovered that they also hold a concentration of T-regulatory immune cells (T-regs).

Body tissues grow by increasing the number of cells. Cells in many tissues in the body divide and grow very quickly until we become adults. When we are adults many cells mature and become specialised ...