The ability to induce mouse stem cells to self-assemble into structures resembling early embryos with a digestive tract, a developing brain, and a beating heart was found by scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Some cells underwent chemical pretreatment to activate genetic programmes that would drive them to develop into the yolk sac or […]
Drug sensitivity linked to leukaemia susceptibility
The article was published in the journal Redox Biology. Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that affects blood cells in your bone marrow, usually white blood cells. The team led by Dr. Lucas Pontel and including Dr. Manel Esteller, Director of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (IJC), ICREA Research Professor, and Chairman of […]
