News tagged with death domain

Controlling cell death prevents skin inflammation

The outer layer of the skin, called the epidermis, forms a critical physical and immunological wall that serves as the body's first line of defense against potentially harmful microorganisms. Most of the epidermis consists ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insights into growth factor's role in brain development

New research sheds light on a neural growth factor called proBDNF, finding that it is present and potentially active during the perinatal period when the brain's circuitry and memory-encoding regions are being refined. Led ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover 'on switch' for cell death signaling mechanism

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have determined the structure of the interactions between proteins that form the heart of the death inducing signaling complex (DISC), which is responsible for ...

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created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Signaling to chromatin

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in collaboration with their colleagues from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Rare' brain disorder may be more common than thought: study

A global team of neuroscientists, led by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida, have found the gene responsible for a brain disorder that may be much more common than once believed. In the Dec. 25 online issue of Nature Ge ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What happens to your Facebook when you die? Digital assets oft forgotten

When most people think about bequeathing their belongings, it's the obvious: the house, the car, bank accounts, the sentimental family mementos.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Concussion testing makes everyone tired

Testing athletes for concussions may induce mental fatigue in subjects whether or not they have a head injury, according to Penn State researchers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At a crossroads: New research predicts which cars are likeliest to run lights at intersections

In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2.3 million automobile crashes occurred at intersections across the United States, resulting in some 7,000 deaths. More than 700 of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop new class of small molecules through innovative chemistry

Inspired by natural products, scientists on the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have created a new class of small molecules with the potential to serve as a rich foundation for drug discovery.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tamoxifen resistance -- and how to defeat it

In the last three decades, thousands of women with breast cancer have taken the drug tamoxifen, only to discover that the therapy doesn't work, either because their tumors do not respond to the treatment at all, or because ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Road fatalities among young and old much improved, but still high

Road deaths among young adults and seniors are down nearly 60 percent since 1968, but they still have the highest road fatality rates among all age groups, say University of Michigan researchers.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early mortality risk reduced up to 40 percent through increased physical activity and sports

Even though previous studies have been shown the link between regular exercises and improved health the exact dose-response relation remains unclear. Guenther Samitz, researcher in physical activity and public ...

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created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientist wins Nobel 3 days after cancer death (Update 2)

Rockefeller University in New York says Ralph Steinman, co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine, has died.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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