Dictionary definition: morphogen

Article: MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Notice of ...
PR Newswire;  October 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... NEW YORK, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Private) announced ... allowance of this application provides MorphoGen with broad coverage for its tissue engineering ... stated Lawrence Rifkin, President of MorphoGen. "By gaining protection for the cell ...

Article: MORPHOGEN HAS PLANS TO GET AROUND STEM CELL ...
BIOWORLD Today;  August 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... representatives from stem cell start-up MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals Inc. said the technology ... debate around stem cell origins moot. MorphoGen, officially funded into existence last ... taken from fetal or embryonic tissue. MorphoGen officials said they couldn't comment ...

Article: Autologous Morphogen Gradients by Subtle Interstitial Flow ...
Biophysical Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... than their absolute amounts, such as morphogen gradients driving morphogenetic processes ... gradients (herein referred to simply as morphogen gradients, which will include chemokines ... factors that can affect pericellular morphogen distribution in a 3D tissue environment ...

Article: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Morphogen ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 17, 2007 ;     540 words ... ... developed compositions for identifying morphogen analogs. According to the U ... and compositions for identifying morphogen analogs. The preferred methods ... compositions relate to the discovery that morphogen upregulation of the mouse type ...

Article: Chromos enters collaboration agreement with MorphoGen ...
Gene Therapy Weekly;  May 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Molecular Systems, Inc., (CHR) and MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of San Diego ... agreement whereby Chromos will employ MorphoGen's adult-derived stem cells to expand ... in cell-mediated gene therapy." "MorphoGen's adult-derived stem cells addresses ...

Article: A mechanism for the sharp transition of morphogen gradient ...
BMC Developmental Biology;  May 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... interpret different concentrations of morphogen to activate different genes or how thresholds are generated in a morphogen gradient. Recent studies indicate ... thresholds, with small differences in morphogen concentration yielding qualitative ...

Article: Master equation simulation analysis of immunostained Bicoid ...
BMC Systems Biology;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... that involves only diffusion and first order decay. There is good evidence that the formation of the protein gradient of the morphogen Bicoid (Bcd) takes place by means of these two processes. Bcd protein is distributed in an exponential profile along the ...