Sentences with phrase «than daughter cells»
These mother cells can pump out drugs more efficiently than the daughter cells which did not inherit old cell poles.
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Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.
Gottschling noticed that after about 25 cell divisions — the equivalent of middle age in humans — DNA errors in daughter cells started appearing 100 times faster than normal.
During each cell division, more than 3.3 billion base pairs of genomic DNA have to be duplicated and segregated accurately to daughter cells.
In a previous study, Aldridge and her colleagues demonstrated that mycobacteria divide asymmetrically — despite being genetically identical, one of the two daughter cells will usually be longer and faster growing than its twin.
The researchers also found that another population known as progenitor cells — differentiated daughter cells of stem cells — started to behave like stem cells: They began to live much longer than their usual lifespan of a few days, and they could also generate mini-intestines when grown outside of the body.
Although counterintuitive, this is reminiscent of the way certain pluripotent stem cells in other systems express a greater number of genes — including more ancient genes — than their somatic daughter cells do.