News tagged with microvilli
Salmonella Spills its Secrets on the Space Shuttle
May 07, 2009 |
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Salmonella, what's gotten into you? Researchers have been asking themselves this question ever since Salmonella bacteria grown on board the space shuttle returned to Earth 3 to 7 times more virulent than S ...
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Intestinal cells surprisingly active in pursuit of nutrition and defense
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Every cell lining the small intestine bristles with thousands of tightly packed microvilli that project into the gut lumen, forming a brush border that absorbs nutrients and protects the body from intestinal ...
Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder
Jun 21, 2009 |
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(June 21, 2009) - Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Bay ...
Fruit Fly Helps Identify Protein Critical to Eggshell Formation That May be Pesticide Target
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May 29, 2008 |
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The common fruit fly circling your week-old peach has helped scientists zero in on a protein critical to the insect's eggshell formation.
Finding microscopic motors in the gut
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Jun 28, 2007 |
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Digestion has a previously unsuspected mechanical dimension: Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that the tiny, hair-like protrusions that line the gut are filled with millions of molecular motors that produce streams ...
Molecular motors may speed nutrient processing
May 30, 2007 |
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Matthew Tyska, Ph.D., recalls being intrigued, from the first day of his postdoctoral fellowship in 1999, with a nearly 30-year-old photograph. It was an electron micrograph that showed the internal structures of an intestinal ...
UBC discovery may lead to 'smart' therapies for breast, ovarian cancer
Mar 19, 2007 |
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New non-toxic and targeted therapies for metastatic breast and ovarian cancers may now be possible, thanks to a discovery by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia.
Floating and spiky
Nov 03, 2006 |
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With the aid of complex computer simulations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and at the University of Heidelberg have discovered how the shape and distribution ...
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