Narrow-band imaging comparable to white light colonoscopy in differentiating colorectal polyps
OAK BROOK, Ill. December 15, 2008 Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine compared narrow-band imaging (NBI) without high magnification to standard white light colonoscopy in differentiating colorectal polyps during real-time colonoscopy and found that NBI was not more accurate than ...Only A Few Differentiating Factors Between Adult And Stem Cells
Researchers have successfully directed cells taken from mouse embryos or adult mice to behave like stem cells by using just four differentiating factors. The details appear// in an immediate early publication of the journal Cell. Researchers said the newly formed cells called "induced pluripotent s...Mobile Surgery International Assembles Team of Nationally Recognized Orthopedic Surgeons
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Shedding new light on the great cognitive rift between humans and animals, a Harvard University scientist has synthesized four key differences in human and animal cognition into a hypothesis on what exactly differentiates human and animal thought. In new work presented for the...Genetically corrected blood cells obtained from skin cells from Fanconi anemia patients
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...arget to attack, especially in the most resistant and hard-to-treat cases." LIN28, which is abundant in embryonic stem cells and prevents them from differentiating into specific cell types, was originally discovered to influence embryonic development in worms some 25 years ago. Development, stem cell generation a...Scientists shed light on inner workings of human embryonic stem cells
...r cell types. It also sends the cells on a path toward differentiation. In contrast, when miR-145 is lost, the embryonic stem cells are prevented from differentiating as the concentrations of transcription factors rise. They also show that the control between miR-145 and the "reprogramming factors" goes both ways...Brain building: Study shows brain growth tied to cell division in mouse embryos
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