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Stem cell breakthrough unlocks mystery of inherited heart condition

31 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

Using advanced stem cell technology, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created a model of a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an excessive thickening of the heart that is associated with a number of rare and common illnesses, some of which have a strong…

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Snake gene could hold answer to spinal cord regeneration

8 August 2016 | By Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, have discovered that the key controller of trunk, tail and spinal development is the Oct4 gene, one of the essential regulators of stem cells. The team intend to use their data to open new avenues to the study of spinal cord regeneration...

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Mexican salamander holds key to limb regeneration

5 August 2016 | By MDI Biological Laboratory

The ability of animals to regenerate body parts has always fascinated scientists but until the advent of sophisticated tools for genetic and computational analysis, they had no way of studying the genetic machinery that enables regeneration...

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Bio-Rad Bio-Plex Multiplex Immunoassay System

4 August 2016 | By Bio-Rad Laboratories

The Bio-Plex System offers high-performance readers, industry-leading software, and sensitive assays in ready-to-use or custom configurations, enabling you to obtain high-quality data from limited samples...

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Bio-Rad S3e™ Cell Sorter

4 August 2016 | By Bio-Rad Laboratories

The Bio-Rad automated S3e™ Cell Sorter allows you to perform simple 1–4 colour sorts in less than 30 minutes and greatly enhances your experimental success...

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Signalling mechanism for zebrafish fin regeneration identified

4 August 2016 | By Tokyo Institute of Technology

Certain species of amphibians and fish have the remarkable ability to regenerate tissue. Advances in molecular biological analyses have allowed researchers to identify specific molecules and signalling mechanisms involved in tissue regeneration. Fgf signalling is one such key mechanism...