Now researchers at SciLifeLab have shown that one and
the same cell of origin can give rise to different types of glioma.
Not exact matches
«We studied a range
of authentic microfossils using the
same transmission electron microscopy technique and in all cases these reveal coherent, rounded envelopes
of carbon having dimensions consistent with their
origin from
cell walls and sheaths.
Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also
of Pitt's Department
of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem
cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School
of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal
cells called keratocytes, which have the
same embryonic
origin.
Notably, the CRG team, which counted with the expertise in Mycoplasma from the Serrano's laboratory and the collaboration
of the ICREA research professor Marc Marti - Renom at CNAG - CRG, discovered that Mycoplasma's circular chromosome is consistently organised the
same way in all the
cells, with a region called the
Origin (where DNA copying begins) at one end
of the structure and the midpoint
of the chromosome located at the opposite end.