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CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for animal technicians
26 February 2008
NIMR's Biological Services has been granted a NC3Rs/LASA small award to be used in financing the project ‘Continuing Professional Development for animal technicians’.
The adult pituitary gland contains stem/progenitor cells
21 February 2008
NIMR scientists have shown in a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that SOX2-expressing progenitor cells in the adult mouse pituitary can form "pituispheres" in culture and generate all the major cell types present in vivo.
Bliss book wins publishing prize
12 February 2008
The Hippocampus Book has won the 2007 Professional and Scholarly Publishing award for Biomedicine and Neuroscience. The book was co-edited by Dr Tim Bliss, FRS, formerly head of NIMR's Division of Neurophysiology.
A “lingering kiss” may reduce risk of blood clotting
08 February 2008
NIMR scientists have shown that the Weibel Palade body, an unusual secretory organelle found in the cells that line our blood vessels, can undergo a specialized form of exocytosis that allows selective release of small pro-inflammatory molecules, while retaining larger pro-coagulant molecules.
Recycling makes WNT protein secretion efficient
15 January 2008
Recycling makes WNT protein secretion efficient
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