Stem cells are specialized undifferentiated cells that can divide and have the remarkable potential to develop into many different
cell types in the body during early life and growth.
Not exact matches
The majority of
cells in the human
body are blood
cells, which comprise many different
types that are continuously produced
during the life of an organism.
There are about as many microbial
cells in our
body as our own
cells, and they appear to be transmitted from mother to child
during birth and continually altered by the home environment,
type of diet, medications and even the family pet.
The research, published
in the journal Scientific Reports, shows for the first time that the way
in which fat is made within the
body is not «pre-programmed»
during the early years of development as previously thought but even
in adulthood
cells can be influenced by our environment to change the
type of fat that is formed.
Dr Yu said this
type of killer T
cell was naturally found
in the
body during infection, but their numbers and killing function needed to be boosted to allow them to eradicate chronic infections.