The signaling requirements to decouple proliferation of pancreatic progenitors from differentiation were elucidated and employed for the reproducible expansion, under GMP-compliant conditions, of pancreatic progenitors derived from different human pluripotent stem cell lines.
Transcription factor Sox9 has an important role in neocortex expansion, where its expression in basal progenitors increases proliferation, induces premature gliogenesis and promotes the expression of extracellular matrix components.
Single-cell transcriptomes of larval zebrafish whole brain shed light on the multidimensional landscapes of transcription factors and post-transcriptional regulators in vertebrate whole-brain neuronal classification and revealed principles of how neuronal cell diversity develops and evolves.
Gene knockout in cell lines and mice reveal that store-operated calcium entry is synergistically mediated by Orai1 and Orai3 channel proteins in B cells and is important for signaling to the nucleus and metabolic activity in response to antigenic stimulation.
Guangliang Wang, Surendra K Rajpurohit ... Jeff S Mumm
A novel high-throughput, whole organism chemical screening platform was used to identify existing drugs that increase pancreatic beta-cell mass in zebrafish, implicating unique roles for the NF-κB and serotonergic signaling pathways in regulating pancreatic biology.
DECR1, a rate-limiting enzyme for polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) β-oxidation, is an androgen-repressed gene in prostate cancer cells that limits oxidative stress to promote cancer cell survival.
Peter Zatka-Haas, Nicholas A Steinmetz ... Kenneth D Harris
Local sensory signals in visual and frontal cortex play a causal role in task performance, while widespread dorsal cortical signals correlating with movement reflect processes that do not.
