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Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sticky is good. A University of California, San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the “stickiness of life.” The big idea i ...
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Skin-like tissue developed from human embryonic stem cells
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Dental and tissue engineering researchers at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have harnessed the pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) ...
Cancer cells are protected by our own immune system
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the very first few days of development of a cancer, our immune system recognizes cancer cells not as abnormal cells requiring eradication but as cells of the body that need to be protected. This result ...
Scientists find cells responsible for bladder cancer's spread
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists have tracked down a powerful set of cells in bladder tumors that seem to be primarily responsible for the cancer's growth and spread using a technique that takes advantage of similarities between ...
Cell study explains why younger people more at risk of vCJD
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Specific cells within the immune system could help explain why younger people are more susceptible to variant CJD, scientists believe.
Male germ cells can be directly converted into other cell types
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Researchers have found a way to directly convert spermatogonial stem cells, the precursors of sperm cells, into tissues of the prostate, skin and uterus. Their approach, described this month in the journal ...
Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses. The growing tips of plant roots and shoots have an ...
New strategy in tumor treatment
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A new strategy proposed by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and Amtek, Hanover, NH may treat tumors that do not respond to conventional treatment. The study, which was published on May 29th in the open access, peer ...
Scientists take early steps toward mapping epigenetic variability
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Brown University scientists have taken the first steps toward mapping epigenetic variability in cells and tissues. Mapping the human epigenome, similar to the human genome project in the 1990s, could someday ...
Loss of Tumor-Suppressor and DNA-Maintenance Proteins Causes Tissue Demise, Study Finds
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the October issue of Nature Genetics demonstrates that loss of the tumor-suppressor protein p53, coupled with elimination of the DNA-maintenance protein ATR, severely disrup ...
Scientists discover cells that control inflammation in chronic disease
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of immune cell that can be out of control in certain chronic inflammatory diseases, worsening the symptoms of conditions like psoriasis and asthma, is described for the first time ...
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