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Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

Control of cell behaviour through nanovibrational stimulation: nanokicking

May 28, 2018 - Mechanical signals are ubiquitous in our everyday life and the process of converting these mechanical signals into a biological signalling response is known as mechanotransduction. Our understanding of mechanotransduction, and its contribution to

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Reconstruction of protein domain evolution using single-cell amplified genomes of uncultured choanoflagellates sheds…

Nov 25, 2019 - Understanding the origins of animal multicellularity is a fundamental biological question. Recent genome data have unravelled the role that co-option of pre-existing genes played in the origin of animals. However, there were also some important

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Mapping the networks for pluripotency

Aug 12, 2011 - There has been an immense interest in embryonic stem cells owing to their pluripotent property, which refers to the ability to differentiate into all cell types of an embryo. In the maintenance of this pluripotent nature, transcription factors play

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Mesoderm patterning by a dynamic gradient of retinoic acid signalling

Oct 12, 2020 - Retinoic acid (RA), derived from vitamin A, is a major teratogen, clinically recognized in 1983. Identification of its natural presence in the embryo and dissection of its molecular mechanism of action became possible in the animal model with the

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Axotrophin and leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) in transplantation tolerance

Aug 16, 2005 - Immune self-tolerance is controlled by a subset of T lymphocytes that are regulatory (Treg) and epigenetically programmed to suppress auto-reactive immune effector cells in vivo. By extrapolation, donor-specific transplantation tolerance might be