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How cells die determines whether immune system mounts response

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's ...





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Bladder cells feel stretch

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Dr. Isao Araki and Dr. Tsutomu Mochizuki (Yamanashi Univ.), found ...


Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.


Prolonged stress sparks ER to release calcium stores and induce cell death in aging-related diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Li et al. explain how prolonged stress sparks the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to release its calcium stores, inducing cells to undergo apoptosis in several aging-related diseases.The study will appear in the September 21, ...


Researchers identify key proteins needed for ovulation

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have identified in mice two proteins essential for ovulation to take place.


Researchers identify missing target for calcium signaling

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international study led by Ohio State University neuroscience researchers describes one of the missing triggers that controls calcium inside cells, a process important for muscle contraction, nerve-cell transmission, insulin ...


Scientists Discover Hunger's Timekeeper

Scientists Discover Hunger's Timekeeper

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created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have identified cells in the stomach that regulate the release of a hormone associated with appetite. The group is the first to show that ...


Study provides insights into the molecular basis of tumor cell behavior

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by a team of researchers led by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, sheds light on the molecular basis by which tumor cells modulate their surroundings ...


Researchers develop drug delivery system using nanoparticles and lasers

Researchers develop drug delivery system using nanoparticles and lasers

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS Nano, a jour ...


Link between obesity and diabetes discovered

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created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A Monash University study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery which could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.


Researchers find a key mechanism in the development of nerve cells

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chaos brews in the brains of newborns: the nerve cells are still bound only loosely to each other. Under the leadership of Academy Research Fellow Sari Lauri, a team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has been studying ...



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