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Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(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.


Watching Lyme disease-causing microbes move in ticks

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Lyme disease is caused by the microbe Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans from feeding ticks.


When is a stem cell really a stem cell?

When is a stem cell really a stem cell?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- adult cells reprogrammed to look and function like versatile embryonic stem cells -- are of growing interest in medicine. They may provide a way to ...


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Pork meat grown in the laboratory

Biology / Biotechnology

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Eindhoven University in The Netherlands have for the first time grown pork meat in the laboratory by extracting cells from a live pig and growing them in a petri dish.


Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research in the Dec. 2 issue ...


Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Blind, nearly hairless, and looking something like toothy, plump, pink fingers, naked mole rats may rank among nature's most maligned creatures, but their unusual physiology endears them to scientists.


Study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University ...


Study shows link between influenza virus and fever

Medicine & Health / Research

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

One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...


Drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice

Drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A potential new drug for lung cancer has eliminated tumours in 50% of mice in a new study published today in the journal Cancer Research. In the animals, the drug also stopped lung cancer ...


Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new proteins to defend them ...



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