Somatic cell hybridization is widely used to study the control of gene regulation and the stability of differentiated states. In contrast, the application of this method to germ cells has been limited ...

A Japanese research team has produced induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells safely and efficiently by adding artificially synthesized ribonucleic acid to human blood cells. The team, comprising ...

Clonell Therapeutics, Inc., a leading biotechnology company dedicated to curing intractable and incurable diseases, announced today the official launch of the world's first 'Patient-Specific Embryonic ...

Regarding the new coronavirus causing pandemic around the world, a research result that a joint research team of research institutions around the world including Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were first developed in 2006 by Professor Yamanaka Shin’ya of Kyoto University. These new cells marked a major breakthrough in stem cell research, and have huge ...

When cells express specific genes that characterise a certain type of cell we say that a cell has become differentiated. Check your understanding of division and differentiation in human cells. Brush ...