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How eating fruit and vegetables can improve cancer patients' response to chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.


Scientists provide important insight into apoptosis or programmed cell death

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study by Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s Assistant Professor Li Hoi Yeung, Assistant Professor Koh Cheng Gee and their team have made an important contribution to the understanding of the process that cells go ...


The egg makes sure that sperm don't get too old

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In contrast to women, men are fertile throughout life, but research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now shown that a fertilising sperm can get help from the egg to rejuvenate. The result ...


Come on in: Nuclear barrier less restrictive than expected in new cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When it comes to the two basic types of cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, compartmentalization is everything. Prokaryotes are evolutionarily ancient cells that only have a membrane surrounding their outer boundary, while ...


A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease

A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.


Aching Back? Cholesterol Medication Might Help

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Back pain, a hallmark of degenerative disc disease, sends millions of people to their doctor. In fact, more than 80 percent of patients who undergo spine surgery do so because of disc degeneration. And part of the answer ...


Protein that triggers plant cell division

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

From the valves in a human heart to the quills on a porcupine to the petals on a summer lily, the living world is as varied as it is vast. For this to be possible, the cells that make up these living things must be just as ...


Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood - a finding that could lead to a ...


Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and ...


Finding the ZIP-code for gene therapy: Scientists imitate viruses to deliver therapeutic genes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A research report featured on the cover of the September 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal describes how Australian scientists developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery that viruses use to transp ...


STAT3 protein found to play a key role in cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A protein called STAT3 has been found to play a fundamental role in converting normal cells to cancerous cells, according to a new study led by David E. Levy, Ph.D., professor of pathology and microbiology at NYU Langone ...


The Breakdown of Barriers in Old Cells May Hold Clues to Aging Process

The breakdown of barriers in old cells may hold clues to aging process

Biology /

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Like guards controlling access to a gated community, nuclear pore complexes are communication channels that regulate the passage of proteins and RNA to and from a cell's nucleus. Recent studies by researchers ...


Lipid involved with gene regulation uncovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new role for the bioactive lipid messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, that is abundant in our blood - a finding that ...


Researchers find new way to fight cocaine addiction

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

UC Irvine pharmacological researchers have discovered that blocking a hormone related to hunger regulation can limit cocaine cravings. Their findings could herald a new approach to overcoming addiction.


Process of Cell Death

Researchers discover a protein that amplifies cell death

Chemistry /

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a small intracellular protein that helps cells commit suicide. The finding, reported as the "paper of the week" in the ...