MERS FAQ—to Explain the New Coronavirus
Currently, the deadly respiratory virus known as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, first confirmed in 2012 in the Middle East, has resurfaced in Asia. Until Jun 30, the number of ...
Protect Your Skin This Summer
Enjoying the beautiful sunshine, laying outside on the beach, or swimming in your backyard pool, well, now the summer is truly coming. Your skin can soak up some fresh air and sunlight, which makes ...
Keratinocytes: Introduction, Function, and Significance
Introduction Due to its large proportion of comprising epidermis cells over 90%, Keratinocyte is often known for being the predominant cell type in the epidermis---one of three parts of the skin but ...
How Much Do You Know about White Blood Cells?
Once speaking of white blood cells, people usually regard them as the body guarder: Whenever a bacteria and other foreign invasion enters the body, the white blood cells will notice and race toward ...
Brief Review of Hepatic Stellate Cell
Hepatic Stellate CellThere are truly a lot of liver cells, including hepatocytes, liver endothelial cells, kupffer cells, hepatic stellate cells, and others. Hepatic stellate cells are liver-specific ...
Adult Stem Cells Derived from Adipose Tissue
Adipose derived stem cells are cells isolated from adipose tissue (depots of fat for storing energy ), such as the abdominal region. Because many people possess excess fat , and the harvest procedure ...
IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (ISH): BUILDING BLOCKS OF DNA FINGERPRINTING
In Situ Hybridization (ISH) is fundamentally different than Immunohistochemistry (IHC) in the sense that ISH localizes the DNA or RNA strand, whereas IHC is looking at individual proteins. With ...
ADVANCEMENTS MADE WITH FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION
FISH procedures are the most commonly used for in situ hybridization. Using fluorescent markers to make DNA sequences more obvious make it much easier to assess the DNA strand and finding patterns ...
HOW WE ACHIEVE CELL IMMORTALIZATION
Research is, and will always be, our primary source of discovery. The use of cells in research projects to determine the various effects of a multitude of stimuli is crucial in the scientific process ...
The Leukemia Cell Line: 697 Pre-B Cell Line
There are two new acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines with early B-cell phenotypes: leukemic cell lines 697 and 207. These cell lines are established from bone marrow cells obtained from human ...