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Breast cancer: How tumor cells break free and form metastases
Jul 04, 2008 |
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When tumor cells acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk of metastases and cancer treatment becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS Director of Research Philippe Chavrier ...
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Discovery may result in new test to determine predisposition to cancer
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an assay that may be used to help identify new genes that can predict a predisposition to cancer.
Tiny protein provokes healthy bonding between cells
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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In human relationships, a certain "spark" often governs whether we prefer one person to another, and critical first impressions can occur within seconds. A team lead by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that cell-to-cell ...
Blood vessel builders
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Futuristic plans to grow replacement organs, bones or muscles for soldiers maimed on the battlefield or patients suffering from debilitating disease or injury won't be anything but science fiction unless new blood vessels ...
How cells handle broken chromosomes
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After being recognized and initially processed by the cellular machinery, the broken chromosome is extensively scanned for homology and the break itself is later tethered to the nuclear envelope. Thus the ...
300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...
An enzyme that mutates antibodies also targets a cancer-causing oncogene
Dec 11, 2008 |
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The human immune system is in a perpetual state of self-experimentation. It expertly mutates and shuffles the DNA of its own cells to evolve new defenses against the vast array of microbes that try to invade our bodies. But ...
Researchers identify DNA mutation that occurs at beginning point of T-cell lymphoma
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a key mechanism that causes chromosomes within blood cells to break—an occurrence that marks the first step in the ...
New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain ...
Researchers shed light on fat burning
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgia State University have found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning much the same way a thermostat regulates temperature inside a house.
Lab-on-a-chip hones in on how cancer cells break free
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a method that could be used to help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighboring tissue, an "escape" that can spread the disease to other parts of the body. ...
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