News tagged with cellular switch

Protein 'switches' could turn cancer cells into tiny chemotherapy factories

Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a protein "switch" that instructs cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

From cell division to ageing: Scientists locate main cell switches

(PhysOrg.com) -- Protein function and gene expression are often regulated by reversible modifications of already existing proteins. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and the University ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists find the cellular on and off switch for allergies and asthma

If you're one of the millions who dread the spring allergy season, things are looking up. A research study appearing in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows how a team of American scientists have i ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




Search results for cellular switch


AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit

(AP) -- Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.

Technology / Telecom

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Flipping a light switch in the cell: Quantum dots used for targeted neural activation

By harnessing quantum dots—tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across—researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

CD97 gene expression and function correlate with WT1 protein expression and glioma invasiveness

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center (Richmond, VA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) have discovered that suppression ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zinc control could be path to breast cancer treatment

The body's control mechanisms for delivering zinc to cells could be key to improving treatment for some types of aggressive breast cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead

Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. New research involving a team ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find molecular switch that allows melanoma to resist therapy

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that as many as one in 51 men and women will be diagnosed with melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—at some point during their lifetimes. A research ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3D mapping of human genome to help understand diseases

Genome Institute of Singapore’s (GIS) Associate Director of Genomic Technologies, Dr. Yijun RUAN, led a continuing study on the human genome spatial/structural configuration, revealing how genes interact/communicate ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chaos in the cell's command center

A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mutated Kras spins a molecular loop that launches pancreatic cancer

Scientists have connected two signature characteristics of pancreatic cancer, identifying a self-perpetuating "vicious cycle" of molecular activity and a new potential target for drugs to treat one of the most lehal forms ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Metastasis of pancreatic cancer in action

Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


List of search results for cellular switch