Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.
Substance tackles skin cancer from two sides
Nov 02, 2008 |
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By playing it safe and using a two-pronged attack, a novel designer molecule fights malignant melanoma. It was created and tested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bonn. On the one hand, the ...
Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues
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Nov 02, 2008 |
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Scientists have long known that it's possible for one gene to produce slightly different forms of the same protein by skipping or including certain sequences from the messenger RNA. Now, an MIT team has shown that this phenomenon, ...
Detecting tiny twists with a nanomachine
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire. This device, ...
New method provides panoramic view of protein-RNA interactions in living cells
Nov 02, 2008 |
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DNA, it has turned out, isn't all it was cracked up to be. In recent years we learned that the molecule of life, the discovery of the 20th century, did not -- could not -- by itself explain the huge differences in complexity ...
Persistent bacterial infection exploits killing machinery of immune cells
Nov 02, 2008 |
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A new study reveals an important and newly discovered pathway used by disease-causing bacteria to evade the host immune system and survive and grow within the very cells meant to destroy them. This discovery may lead to new ...
A double-barreled immune cell approach for neuroblastoma
Nov 02, 2008 |
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Adding an artificial tumor-specific receptor to immune system cells called T-lymphocytes that target a particular virus extended and improved the cells' ability to fight a form of childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, said ...
Nature study demonstrates that bacterial clotting depends on clustering
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Nov 02, 2008 |
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Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research at the University of Chicago, National ...
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