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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 5 (February 4, 2014), pp. 1772-1777 (6 pages) Using electron microscopy and fitting of crystal structures ...

As an IT Director, I am always on the lookout for ways to allow our students to use technology in new and interesting ways. We teach some basic coding skills (I love it for the problem-solving aspect ...

Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types. Now, using mouse stem cells instead of the usual sperm and egg, scientists have created a structure like a ...

The human brain is a remarkably complex system, yet the vast majority of it forms from a single type of cell, one that also gives rise to the skin. The specification of nerve cells and the gradual ...

Researchers have found a previously unidentified mechanism that helps explain why stem cells undergo self-renewing divisions but their offspring do not. UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists ...

Researchers have developed a new laboratory model grown from stem cells that replicates the human amniotic sac in the first two to four weeks after fertilization. The structure, which the researchers ...