News tagged with cellular environment


Researchers decipher blood stem cell attachment, communication

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have deciphered a key sequence of events governing whether the stem cells that produce red and white blood cells remain anchored to the bone marrow, or migrate into the circulatory ...





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Researches identify herpesvirus proteins that target key cellular processes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study published July 11th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens suggests that herpesviruses use multiple strategies to manipulate important components of the host cell nuclear environment during infection. The study, ...


Study shows how Salmonella survives in environment

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans.


What your mother did when she was young has an effect on your memory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 9

A mother's life experience can affect the biology of her offspring, according to new animal research in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that a stimulating environment improved the memory ...


Mechanisms of memory identified

Mechanisms of memory identified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Our ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, ...


Embryonic Heart Cells Thrive Only in an Environment That's Just Right

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cellular engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that cardiomyocytes, the specialized cells that form the heart muscle, thrive when cultured in an environment that mimics their own elastic ...


Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...


Mixing genomics and geography yields insights into life and environment

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale researchers used newly developed mathematical models to analyze huge amounts of data on physical characteristics such as temperature and salini ...


Researchers identify novel regulatory mechanism in inflammatory signaling of immune cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cancer cells that were originally isolated from an anaplastic large cell lymphoma patient, two researchers, including a faculty member of The University of Texas at Austin's College of Pharmacy, have ...


Bioengineers develop a microfabricated device to measure cellular forces during tissue development

Microfabricated device measures cellular forces during tissue development (w/Video)

Technology / Engineering

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

A University of Pennsylvania-collaboration of bioengineers studying the physical forces generated by individual cells has created a tiny micron-sized device that allows researchers to measure and manipulate ...


Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...



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