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New insights into growth factor's role in brain development

Medicine & Health / Research

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

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 ...


Researchers discover 'on switch' for cell death signaling mechanism

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

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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Egypt applies for first Arabic domain name

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Egypt's technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name.


A tricky tumor virus

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human-pathogenic virus which belongs to the herpes virus family. Almost every adult carries EBV inside. With an infestation rate of more than 90 %, EBV is one of the most successful human viruses. ...


Protein that promotes cancer cell growth identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the Caspase-8 protein, long known to play a major role in promoting programmed cell death (apoptosis), helps relay signals that can cause cancer ...


Researchers solve 'bloodcurdling' mystery

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created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

By applying cutting-edge techniques in single-molecule manipulation, researchers at Harvard University have uncovered a fundamental feedback mechanism that the body uses to regulate the clotting of blood. The finding, which ...


Researchers probe a DNA repair enzyme

Researchers probe a DNA repair enzyme

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created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers have taken the first steps toward understanding how an enzyme repairs DNA. Enzymes called helicases play a key role in human health, according to Maria Spies, a University of Illinois biochemistry ...


Researchers solve structure of NMDA receptor unit that could be drug target for neurological diseases

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory reports on Thursday their success in solving the molecular structure of a key portion of a cellular receptor implicated in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other serious ...


By amplifying cell death signals, scientists make precancerous cells self-destruct

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. Now, in research to appear in the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, Rockef ...


How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed

How Botulism Paralyzes Nerve Cells: New Details Revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New structures of a botulism toxin interacting with a mimic of the nerve-cell protein it destroys suggest new ways to block this often-fatal interaction. Indeed, the mimic molecules have such ...


Sleep deprivation negatively affects split-second decision making, study shows

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived ...


Jackson's death unleashes barrage of online scams

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden ...



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