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New technology directly reprograms skin fibroblasts for a new role

The new technique cuts out a cellular middleman. Study senior author Xiaowei “George” Xu, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, explains, “Through direct reprogramming, we do not have to go through the pluripotent stem cell stage, but directly convert fibroblasts to melanocytes. …

Discovered the role of noncoding 5S rRNA in protecting the p53 tumor suppressor gene

The results have been published in the online edition of Cell Reports. Cell growth The ability of cells to grow is directly related to the amount of protein synthesized by ribosomes, the intracellular machinery responsible for translating messenger RNA transcribed from DNA into amino acids containing proteins. …