Comments on: X-Plants? http://www.greenseedling.com/2009/02/04/x-plants/ Plant science for everyone Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kyle http://www.greenseedling.com/2009/02/04/x-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-11752 Kyle Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:34:44 +0000 http://www.greenseedling.com/?p=655#comment-11752 Hmmm, I really should re-read my posts before posting them... Haha. Hmmm, I really should re-read my posts before posting them… Haha.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.greenseedling.com/2009/02/04/x-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-11751 Kyle Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:34:10 +0000 http://www.greenseedling.com/?p=655#comment-11751 That is quite an interesting article. I've always found biology fascinating and it never fails to amaze me all the crazy things that are found everyday in the scientific field. That being said... I do think that it is possible that stem cells play a role in liver regeneration in humans... but how they get there is unbeknownst to me. While trying to find out if livers have stem cells or not... i read an article (whose link is posted below) that explains that researchers found that "Proteins called transcription factors, which affect DNA in the cell's nucleus, were highly involved in the development of embryos' livers but not in adult liver regeneration. Instead, proteins that help cells proliferate were active in both the developing and regenerating livers." So maybe it is just that there is some sort of environmental cue that activates the proteins allow for rapid replication, increasing the number the number of cells signifcantly faster simply through cell division. Thanks for the interesting article! http://www.news-medical.net/?id=23477 That is quite an interesting article. I’ve always found biology fascinating and it never fails to amaze me all the crazy things that are found everyday in the scientific field. That being said… I do think that it is possible that stem cells play a role in liver regeneration in humans… but how they get there is unbeknownst to me. While trying to find out if livers have stem cells or not… i read an article (whose link is posted below) that explains that researchers found that “Proteins called transcription factors, which affect DNA in the cell’s nucleus, were highly involved in the development of embryos’ livers but not in adult liver regeneration. Instead, proteins that help cells proliferate were active in both the developing and regenerating livers.”

So maybe it is just that there is some sort of environmental cue that activates the proteins allow for rapid replication, increasing the number the number of cells signifcantly faster simply through cell division.

Thanks for the interesting article!

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=23477

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