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Growing evidence is reporting that cancer is a metabolic disease characterized by cellular mitochondrial respiratory insufficiency.

When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness.

From the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC ; Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom ; and Heart Failure Research Center, Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Physiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands .

From the Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine Lopez-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain ; Departments of Cell Biology, Physiology, and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina and Reina Sofia University Hospital, Institute Maimonides of Biomedical Research of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, and CIBER ... (more)

Just over a week ago, researchers led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton announced their success in achieving the feat .

From the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, and Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

It is a dance with death, however, because the molecular poison the neuron deploys to sever an axon could, if uncontained, kill the entire cell.

Correspondence: Dr K Kobayashi, Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.

A Polish-born stem-cell biologist at Stanford University in California, Joanna Wysocka won the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science on 1 April.

When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness.

As scientists learn more about processing bodies , granules present within normal cells, they are unraveling the complex role PBs play in maintaining cellular homeostasis by regulating RNA metabolism and cell signaling.

This Editorial coincides with the release of the San Francisco declaration on research Assessment , the outcome of a gathering of concerned scientists at the December 2012 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

RIVERSIDE A UC Riverside professor will give a free lecture about stem cells at UCR's Extension Center later this month, a campus spokesman said on May 14.

A significant, and undoubtedly controversial, milestone in stem cell therapy was reached yesterday.

MAY 16, 2013-An ad hoc coalition of unlikely insurgents-scientists, journal editors and publishers, scholarly societies, and research funders across many scientific disciplines-today posted an international declaration calling on the world scientific community to eliminate the role of the journal impact factor in evaluating research for funding, ... (more)

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A new landmark stem cell technique in therapeutic cloning opens new horizons in treating rare diseases and disorders caused by gene mutations.

From the Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY ; Medizinische Klinik fA1 4r Kardiologie und Angiologie, Campus Mitte, CharitA© - UniversitA tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; and University ... (more)

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells -- a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of human cloning.

For the first time, scientists have created human embryonic stem cells by transferring the nucleus of a mature cell into an egg.