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| Brief Introduction |
Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is a government-funded research institution in zoological sciences. It has a long history of over 80 years. The predecessor of IOZ was Fan Memorial Institute of Biology founded in 1928. Many distinguished scientists including thirteen CAS Academicia... |
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 Old Mice, Young Milieu: Understanding How Aged Stem ... |
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Aging is a process of systemic degeneration involving a variety of tissues and organs in the whole body and is characterized by gradual reduction of regenerative ability and functional decline. In trying to understand the aging process, and more importantly, in pursuit to reverse it, scientists h... |
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| Increase in Chromatin Entropy Drives Cellular Aging,... |
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At the center of every cell, highly organized chromatin encodes the program of life with just one set of genes. This is possible because different genes are activated at different stages of life while remaining silent otherwise. Some genes for previous stage of life are buried deep at the nuclear... |
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| APOE destabilizes heterochromatin and drives senescence |
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Prof. Guang-hui Liu and his colleagues from the Institute of Zoology and the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have collaborated to reveal a novel role of APOE in destabilizing heterochromatin and driving senescence in human stem cells, which was published in Nature Agin... |
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| Chinese researchers produce mouse pups with same-sex parents |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- Chinese researchers produced healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own.
The study published on Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell used stem cells and targeted gene editing to render same sex r...
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| Director of International Stem Cell Bank |
Position Description:
The International Stem Cell Forum (ISCF, http://www.stem-cell-forum.net/) is composed of twenty-one funders of stem cell research around the world. It has been founded since January 2003 to stimulate international collaboration and fund...
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