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Viable

Definition

adjective

(1) Alive; capable of living, developing, or reproducing, as in a viable cell.

(2) Able to live on its own or outside the uterus, used of an embryo, fetus or newborn.

(3) Possible; practicable; capable of being done.


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Word origin: French » Mediaeval Latin *vitabilis (“‘capable of life’”) » Latin vita (“‘life’”).
Related forms: viability.

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Stem and Progenitor Cell Questions

... made. What these are, I do not know. Something about being the discards from a fertilization clinic (either very old embryos, or genetically not viable for birth). 4. Using the right biochemicals (from growth factors, to hormones, to environmental media), the stem cells can be differentiated ...

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by kolean
Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:08 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Stem and Progenitor Cell Questions
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Views: 30

How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?

... of chromosomes, and then to hold them together during metaphase. It would have to be an intricate orchestrated process that would unfold into a viable offspring. (Though telomeres do have unique proteins that do like to bind together, especially Sir2, in yeast models so far.)

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by kolean
Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:34 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?
Replies: 3
Views: 63

Re: How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?

... and the unfused always going the other way. Where the spindles on opposite poles of the fused chromosomes are each pulling on one of the two still viable centromeres there would be a tug-of-war type situation causing an extreme pulling force related imbalance, and where there is enough motor protein ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:44 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?
Replies: 3
Views: 63

How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?

... balanced in the male which has only one. A fused chromosomal gamete is equivalent to the two normal chromosomal gamete - BALANCED. You can have viable offspring as long as you have the BALANCED count of 4 chromosomal gametes. If you have the normal 2 chromosomal gametes and the 1 fused chromosomal ...

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by kolean
Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:01 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How does Head To Head Telomere Fusion express itself?
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Views: 63

efficiency of body cells

... to simple mutation in some essential gene, after which the cell cannot secrete some essential protein (like insulin for example) but is otherwise viable. However, I haven't heard that there'd be so many of those cells that one could use the words "a decent percentage" - I believe the ...

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by biohazard
Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:52 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: efficiency of body cells
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