News tagged with islet cells
Stem cells crucial to diabetes cure in mice
Mar 16, 2009 |
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More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin.
Researchers identify new source of insulin-producing cells
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells, a finding that contradicts ...
Researchers explore curing diabetes with animal transplants
Feb 01, 2009 |
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The descendents of Abraham are ready. They were born inside a cinderblock bubble in an anonymous building surrounded by fields in western Wisconsin.
New technique eliminates toxic drugs in islet transplant in diabetic mice
Nov 20, 2008 |
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The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.
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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...
WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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(AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells: study
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday.
Study shows new brain connections form rapidly during motor learning
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the st ...
Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.
Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis
Nov 27, 2009 |
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The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...
Overeating can set stage for obesity, researchers say
Nov 27, 2009 |
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It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes.
New tools for prediction of disease progression in acute childhood leukemia
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children ...
First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected
Nov 26, 2009 |
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What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism ...
Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...
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