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Genetics and Health

May 24th, 2008

How stem cells decide what they’ll be

(Stem cells, photo credit www.nhnscr.org)
How does a stem cell decide what specialized identity to adopt - or simply to remain a stem cell? A new study suggests that the conventional view, which assumes that cells are “instructed” to progress along prescribed signaling pathways, is too simplistic. Instead, it supports the idea that cells differentiate through […]

By Elaine -- 1 comment

April 24th, 2008

Heart cells grown from stem cells

Cardiomyocytes 
Stem cells have been used to create heart cells under lab conditions by researchers from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto.
By supplying the right growth factors at the right time, they encouraged the cells to grow into immature versions of three different types of cardiac cell.
The three cell types they created - cardiomyocytes, […]

By Elaine -- 3 comments