“Mature hepatocytes are source of bipotential oval cells in chronic liver injury”. Markus Grompe

Friday, November 7, 2014

The liver is an organ with a high regeneration potential and Markus Grompe is one of the most excellent scientists working in this field. Using lineage tracing mice,…

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“C/EBPa induced immune cell transdifferentiation reveals two complementary macrophage enhancer pathways during hematopoiesis”. Chris Van Oevelen

Thursday, November 6, 2014

It is known that over expression of one single transcription factor, C/EBPa, is sufficient to convert B cells into macrophages thus regulating the transdifferentiation towards different lineages. However,…

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“Nucleosome from discrete clutches along the chromatin fiber and clutch size correlates with cell pluripotency”. Maria Aurelia Ricci

Thursday, November 6, 2014

The modern microscopy techniques like STORM (stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy) allow us to photograph the structure of the genome within the nucleus. In this work, Maria Aurelia Ricci…

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