News tagged with junctions
Unusual alliances enable movement
Some unusual alliances are necessary for you to wiggle your fingers, researchers report.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Essential protein for the formation of new blood vessels identified
New research explains how cells regulate their bonds during the development of new blood vessels. For the first time, the role of the protein Raf-1 in determining the strength of the bond between cells has ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Researchers find novel way to prevent drug-induced liver injury
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and improve associated drug safety. In their report receiving advance online publication in ...
Jan 15, 2012 |
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A first -- lab creates cells used by brain to control muscle cells
University of Central Florida researchers, for the first time, have used stem cells to grow neuromuscular junctions between human muscle cells and human spinal cord cells, the key connectors used by the brain ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Study links Fragile X Syndrome proteins and RNA editing mistakes at nerve-muscle junction
The most common form of heritable cognitive impairment is Fragile X Syndrome, caused by mutation or malfunction of the FMR1 gene. Loss of FMR1 function is also the most common genetic cause of autism. Understanding ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2011 |
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New record voltage for organic solar cells opens the tech to consumer electronics
Molecular Solar Ltd, a spinout company from the University of Warwick, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. They have achieved and demonstrated a record ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Bacteria enter via mucus-making gut cells
Cells making slippery mucus provide a sticking point for disease-causing bacteria in the gut, according to a study published on October 3 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Scientists observe how superconducting nanowires lose resistance-free state
Even with today's invisibility cloaks, people can't walk through walls. But, when paired together, millions of electrons can.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Even in fruit flies, enriched learning drives need for sleep
Just like human teenagers, fruit flies that spend a day buzzing around the "fly mall" with their companions need more sleep. That's because the environment makes their brain circuits grow dense new synapses and they need ...
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Einstein's theory applied to superconducting circuits
In recent years, UC Santa Barbara scientists showed that they could reproduce a basic superconductor using Einstein's general theory of relativity. Now, using the same theory, they have demonstrated that the Josephson junction ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Physicists measure current-induced torque in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's nonvolatile memory devices – computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered – will profoundly change electronics, and Cornell University researchers ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Researchers use spin waves to measure magnetic polarization of electrical current
In the hard drive industry, the rapid growth of storage density has been propelled in part by developments in the sensors used to read the magnetic "bits" on the disk. Recently, the use of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Researchers discover that stem cell marker regulates synapse formation
Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a "stem cell," such as a neural stem cell. As helpful as this is to researchers, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 30, 2011 |
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Boosting supply of key brain chemical reduces fatigue in mice
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have "engineered" a mouse that can run on a treadmill twice as long as a normal mouse by increasing its supply of acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter essential for muscle contraction.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Defective protein is a double hit for ataxia
The neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) damages nerve cells in two ways. University of Minnesota researchers now report that the defective protein responsible for the disease cuts ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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