HKUMed used the ancient choanoflagellate SOX protein to create stem cells and implanted them into mice, successfully contributing to healthy mice. The ...

A research team from the School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

and reproduction of organisms. While mitosis generates genetically identical daughter cells for somatic cell functions such as growth and repair, meiosis generates genetically diverse daughter ...

Healthy embryos are then transplanted into the closest living relative to act as a surrogate carrier for the hybrid organism. A technique used in cloning where the nucleus of a somatic cell (a ...

In this context, it seems likely that previous successes in the cloning of “adult somatic cells” have been attributable ... and ultimately individual organisms. Nuclear transfer is believed ...

The term metastasis encompasses specific biological traits that together enable the spread of aggressive tumour cells. Different ... epigenetic, somatic and inherited alterations, and serve ...

A new study shows that lowering MSH3, a key DNA repair protein, with antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy can stop CAG ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

“During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity ...