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'Friendly' bacteria protect against type 1 diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 21, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0

In a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease, researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago showed that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development ...





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Paradoxical protein might prevent cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One difficulty with fighting cancer cells is that they are similar in many respects to the body's stem cells. By focusing on the differences, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a new way of tackling ...


Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane

Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Meiosis - the pairing and recombination of chromosomes, followed by segregation of half to each egg or sperm cell - is a major crossroads in all organisms reproducing sexually. Yet, how the ...


Gene knockout may cheer up mice

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

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

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


New study describes connections between Circadian and metabolic systems

Biology / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A paper by University of Notre Dame biologist Giles Duffield and a team of researchers offers new insights into a gene that plays a key role in modulating the body's Circadian system and may also simultaneously modulate its ...


Tumor-initiating Cells Detected in Pten Null Prostate Cancer Model

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New findings published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, advance the current understanding of the role of stem/progenitor cells on the initiation and progression of pro ...


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

Medicine & Health / Research

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 ...


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To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the November 13th issue of the journal Cell that provid ...


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Early life stress has effects at the molecular level

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of mice suggests that stress and trauma in early life can have an impact on the genes and result in behavioral problems later in life.


High fat diet increases inflammation in the mouse colon

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In mice fed a diet high in fat and low in fiber, vitamin D and calcium -- the so-called Western diet -- expression of a series of genes collectively associated with immune and inflammatory responses was altered. ...



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