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Stopping germs from ganging up on humans
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona ...
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Yeast in a shell: Coating individual living yeast cells with silicon dioxide
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our breakfast egg is a peculiarity of nature: a single cell protected by a thin mineral layer. Apart from a number of tiny radiolaria and diatoms, individual cells normally do not have a hard shell. Korean ...
Cell division find prompts overhaul of immune response modeling
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute into the mechanics of how two types of white blood cells grow and die is fundamentally changing the development of computer models that are used to predict how ...
You can control your Marilyn Monroe neuron
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a scientific first, researchers have been able to demonstrate the ability of humans to control the activity of individual brain cells.
Forecasting cancer recurrence
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Two people with the same kind of cancer who receive the exact same treatment may nevertheless have different chances of their tumors coming back years later. Now a team of scientists has developed a computer model that predicts ...
Scientists create airway spheres to study lung diseases
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Using both animal and human cells, Duke University Medical Center scientists have demonstrated that a single lung cell can become one of two very different types of airway cells, which could lead to a better understanding ...
Individual cells isolated from biological clock can keep daily time, but are unreliable
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Alexis Webb enters a small room at Washington University in St. Louis with walls, floor and ceiling painted dark green, shuts the door, turns off the lights and bends over a microscope in a black box draped with black cloth. ...
Getting down to details: Scientist builds imager that identifies, locates individual cancer cells
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Dave Wilson was dissatisfied with blurry, low-sensitivity optical images of diseased tissues. So, four years ago he set out to create a better imager.
Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode ...
Placenta-derived stem cells may help sufferers of lung diseases
Jul 27, 2009 |
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An Italian research team, publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:4), has found that stem cells derived from human placenta may ultimately play a role in the treatment of lung diseases, such as pulmon ...
Trio of signals converge to induce liver and pancreas cell development in the embryo
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding the molecular signals that guide early cells in the embryo to develop into different organs provides insight into ways that tissues regenerate and how stem cells can be used ...
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