Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered that a particular protein prevents normal cells from being reprogrammed into cells that resemble stem cells, providing new insight into how they may lose their plasticity during normal development. This finding has broad-reaching implications for how cells change during both normal and disease development. The data are published this week in Nature Communications. …read more
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Egypt traffic accident injures 5 French tourists
An Egyptian security official says five female French tourists were injured, two critically, when their minibus overturned on snow-covered mountain roads in the Sinai Peninsula.
The accident happened as the women were heading early Thursday to St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, said Col. Ahmed Said, the monastery’s police chief.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and the injured were transported to hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Said says two of the women are in critical condition. Their Egyptian driver was unharmed.
Road accidents are common in Egypt, which has one of the world’s worst traffic safety records. Snow however, such as that brought in by the fierce winter storm to hit the region this week, is a rarity.
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