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Specialized nerve cells in the temporal lobe react highly selectively to images and names of a single person or specific ...

Pluripotent stem cells have the ability to create any specialized cell in the body, such as skin, bone, blood or nervous system cells—a process called differentiation. Because of that ability ...

Scientists have finally proved that cloning an animal from a fully specialised cell of an adult is possible – something that has been doubted even though Dolly the sheep was supposed to have ...

Human development has long been seen as a one-way street. During gestation, stem cells were thought to develop into a succession of ever more specialized cells. As Dr. R. Ariel Gomez has ...

The key features of cells and their functions - OCR 21st Century Specialised cells. All living organisms are made of cells. Some contain only one cell. Others are multicellular and contain many cells.

Scientists have identified 1,155 genes under the control of a gene called Oct4 considered to be the master regulator of the stem cell state. For more than 25 years, stem cells have been defined ...

Research suggests the winter blues are triggered by specialized light-sensing cells in the retina that communicate directly with brain areas involved in mood.

Pregnancy certainly has its downside, but it may have an unexpected upside as well: cells from the baby may help heal wounds in the mother, even long after it has been born. It has been ...

And while the cockroach bacteria are passed down in eggs, they live in specialised cells, not in every cell. But in three cases, endosymbionts have merged with their hosts to become a fundamental ...