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To keep muscles strong, the 'garbage' has to go

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In order to maintain muscle strength with age, cells must rid themselves of the garbage that accumulates in them over time, just as it does in any household, according to a new study in the December issue of Cell Metabolism. In the ...


Molecular anchor links the 2 inheritable diseases Fanconi anemia and Bloom's syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study establishes a molecular link that bridges two rare inherited disorders and explains why these diseases result in genetic instability. The research, published by Cell Press in the December 24th issue of the journal ...


Fruit fly neuron can reprogram itself after injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Studies with fruit flies have shown that the specialized nerve cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after injury.


Green tea chemical combined with another may hold promise for treatment of brain disorders

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists at Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) and the University of Pennsylvania have found that combining two chemicals, one of which is the green tea component EGCG, can prevent and destroy a variety of protein ...


Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.


Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research in the Dec. 2 issue ...


Drug shows positive responses, low side-effects in multiple myeloma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

NEW ORLEANS ― The second-generation proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib is showing noteworthy response rates and low levels of adverse side effects among multiple myeloma patients in a phase II clinical trial, researchers ...


Study shows immune system protein involved in reprogramming adult cells to express stem cell genes

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a protein required to quickly and efficiently reprogram human skin cells to express embryonic stem cell genes.



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