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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now two scientists have proved beyond doubt that fully specialised cells can give rise to clones, which opens the prospect of there being two ways to clone from adult tissues – by cloning either ...

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 ...

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

"Specialised cells of plants can return to being stem cells without external manipulation. In the plant world, there is a natural reprogramming process," says Carsten Peterson.