The hard cell

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)

"Despite disagreements about the ethics of embryonic stem-cell science, research in the field is thriving globally. At least 500 companies and collaborations have sprung up, 100 of them in the past year alone, according to industry watchers. And although therapies are still largely at the preclinical and safety-testing stages, coaxing these cells to recapitulate development in vitro is already unveiling the beginnings of pathogenesis, revealing new drug targets. Basic and translational research positions are proliferating, drawing on a pool of applicants with diverse biomedical backgrounds."

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Dont let your mental illness impact your child's life !

Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.reutershealth.com)

The findings are based on information from Denmark's system of population registers. Researchers found that compared with other children younger than 15, those with a parent hospitalized for mental illness were 5 to 10 times more likely to die of homicide, depending on their age and which parent had the disorder. The highest risk was seen among preschool children whose father was hospitalized.

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Analysis of the Stem Cell Population of the Human Colon Crypt

cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 10 months (compbiol.plosjournals.org)

“The dynamics of the stem cell populations in human colon crypts are of interest to cancer researchers and stem cell biologists alike. One approach to studying stem cell divisions would be to adopt methods from population genetics: cells are sampled from crypts, DNA markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms are identified, and a model of how these mutations arose is used to infer aspects of the ancestry of the sample. Because cells within an individual are being studied, mutations of this sort are extremely rare, and an alternative marker has to be used

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