News tagged with dying cells
'Scrawny' gene keeps stem cells healthy
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the ...
How cells die determines whether immune system mounts response
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's ...
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New study identifies cellular mechanism that causes lupuslike symptoms in mice
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Macrophages, the scavenger cells of the body's immune system, are responsible for disposing of dying cells. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified one pathway in this important process in mice ...
Programmed cell death contributes force to the movement of cells
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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In addition to pruning cells out of the way during embryonic development, the much-studied process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, has been newly found to exert significant mechanical force on surrounding cells.
A sticky business -- how cancer cells become more 'gloopy' as they die
Mar 15, 2009 |
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The viscosity, or 'gloopiness', of different parts of cancer cells increases dramatically when they are blasted with light-activated cancer drugs, according to new images that provide fundamental insights into how cancer ...
More brain research suggests 'use it or lose it'
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists have found another important clue to why nerve cells die in neurodegenerative diseases, based on studies of the developing brain.
Scientists isolate cancer stem cells
Sep 11, 2008 |
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After years of working toward this goal, scientists at the OU Cancer Institute have found a way to isolate cancer stem cells in tumors so they can target the cells and kill them, keeping cancer from returning.
Study identifies biomarker that safely monitors tumor response to new brain cancer treatment
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A specific biomarker, a protein released by dying tumor cells, has been identified as an effective tool in an animal model to gauge the response to a novel gene therapy treatment for glioblastoma mulitforme. The finding, ...
Study: New way to control inflammation
Oct 03, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say they've discovered a new way to control or terminate potentially harmful immune responses that produce inflammation.
Stress makes your hair go gray
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report in the June 12 issue of Cell.
Breakthrough in birth-defect research
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered how to prevent certain craniofacial disorders in what could ultimately lead to at-risk babies being treated in the womb.
In Brief: Body may be younger than it looks
Jun 21, 2006 |
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A Swedish researcher says you may not be as old as you think you are.
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