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As primary lymphoid organ, the thymus provides the essential environment for maturation and selection of functional T lymphocytes. Thymic epithelial (TE) cells derive from the endoderm, and more specifically, from the third pharyngeal pouch. The thymic epi ...
Effective Tissue engineering ultimately depends on understanding the interplay between the proliferation and differentiation stages of development. One of the best systems to examine these processes is myogenesis. Activated myoblasts first undergo many rou ...
Given their accessibility, multipotent skin-derived cells might be useful for future cell replacement therapies. We describe the isolation of multipotent stem cell-like cells from the adult trunk skin of mice and humans that express the neural crest stem c ...
The target gene(s) required for Myc-mediated tumorigenesis are still elusive. Here we show that while endogenous c-Myc is surprisingly dispensable for skin homeostasis and TPA-induced hyperplasia, c-Myc-deficient epidermis is resistant to Ras-mediated DMBA ...
DivIVA from Bacillus subtilis is a bifunctional protein with distinct roles in cell division and sporulation. During vegetative growth, DivIVA regulates the activity of the MinCD complex, thus helping to direct cell division to the correct mid-cell positio ...
Hair follicles are cutaneous structures characteristic of mammals. These sensitive organs cycle and contain multipotent epithelial stem cells which are implicated in hair growth and hair cycle. A single whisker follicle of the rat hosts up to 1500 stem cel ...
Can individual cells, including live cells, be imaged using hard x rays? Common wisdom until now required sophisticated staining techniques for this task. We show instead that individual cells and cell details can be detected in culture solution and tissue ...
Effective Tissue engineering ultimately depends on understanding the interplay between the proliferation and differentiation stages of development. One of the best systems to examine these processes is myogenesis. Activated myoblasts first undergo many rou ...
Proper regulation of cell division is crucial to most organisms. Asymmetric division and unequal cleavage are one of the many mechanisms by which spatial regulation of cell division might be achieved. Indeed, by varying its polarity cues or by modulating t ...
We introduce {\em bounded asynchrony}, a notion of `concurrency tailored to the modeling of biological cell-cell interactions. Bounded asynchrony is the result of a scheduler that bounds the number of steps that one process get ahead of other processes; th ...