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Molecules help the immune system to detect cells infected with West Nile virus

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals a model of host-pathogen interaction that explains how the immune system finds and destroys cells infected with a potentially lethal brain virus. The study, published online on February 5th in Immunity, a Cell ...


Growth of new brain cells requires 'epigenetic' switch

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in the January 1 issue of Science, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have d ...


UT Southwestern scientists identify 'border patrol agents' in the gut

Scientists identify 'border patrol agents' in the gut

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created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shown in mice how and under what circumstances the gut activates its defensive mechanisms to prevent illness.





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The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

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For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Stem cell derived neurons for research relevant to Alzheimer's and Niemann-Pick type C diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's ...


Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps ...


Dessert on your mind? Your muscles may be getting the message

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Even the anticipation of sweets may cause our muscles to start taking up more blood sugar, say researchers reporting in the December issue of Cell Metabolism. That message is delivered via neurons in the brain's hypothalamus contai ...


Scientists reveal 'protector' gene behind 50-fold increase in number of bowel tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that deleting a single gene can increase the average number of tumours in the bowel by 50-fold, according to research published in PNAS today.


A RANK insider resolving the enigma of the fever chart

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mammals have evolved a complex system for controlling bone remodeling. Babies require calcium for healthy bones and they obtain it from their mother's milk. Nursing mothers release calcium from their bones. Surprisingly, ...


Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Do stressful situations make your blood pressure rise? If so, your phosducin gene could be to blame according to a team of researchers, at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ...


Research reveals lipids' unexpected role in triggering death of brain cells

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...


Workplace BPA exposure increases risk of male sexual dysfunction

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing in the journal Human Reproduction.


Study shows that some malignant tumors can be shut down after all

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. As a critical anti-cancer watchdog, p53 masterminds several cancer-fighting operations within ...



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