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Alzheimer's disease drug treats traumatic brain injury
Jul 12, 2009 |
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The destructive cellular pathways activated in Alzheimer's disease are also triggered following traumatic brain injury, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). They say this finding suggests that ...
Old Cells Work Differently
Mar 01, 2009 |
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The agglutination and accumulation of proteins in nerve cells are major hallmarks of age-related neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease. Cellular survival thus depends on a controlled removal of excessive ...
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New approach for growing bone
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The natural cycle of building bone to maintain skeletal strength and then breaking it down for the body's calcium needs is delicately balanced, but diseases like osteoporosis break down too much bone without adequate bone ...
Researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways
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Jun 12, 2008 |
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MIT researchers have figured out how bacteria ensure that they respond correctly to hundreds of incoming signals from their environment.
Researchers Track How Biology's Army Is Mobilized
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes an ...
Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organi ...
'Cross-talk' mechanism contributes to colorectal cancer
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have identified a molecular mechanism that allows two powerful signaling pathways to interact and begin a process leading to colorectal ...
Calculating gene and protein connections in a Parkinson's disease model
Feb 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have created an algorithm that meshes existing data to produce a clearer step-by-step flow chart of how cells respond to stimuli. Using this new method, Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Singapore scientists discover widely sought molecular key to understanding p53 tumor suppressor gene
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have determined how the master gene regulator p53 could switch a gene in a cell "on" or "off" by recognizing specific sequences of nucleotides in the gene's DNA.
An unexpected link between coronavirus replication and protein secretion in infected cells
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Coronavirus replication is critically linked to two factors within the early secretory pathway, according to new findings by a team of Dutch researchers that are published June 13th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
Researchers uncover potential mechanisms to protect against genetic alterations, diseases
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Peering into the DNA of tiny yeast, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have pinpointed a large number of ...
Body's defenses may worsen chronic lung diseases in smokers
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Although the immune system is designed to protect the body from harm, it may actually worsen one of the most difficult-to-treat respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), according to new University ...
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