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New stem cell therapy may lead to treatment for deafness
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation ...
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First 3D images obtained of core component of molecular machinery used for cell reproduction
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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For the first time, structural biologists have managed to obtain the detailed three-dimensional structure of one of the proteins that form the core of the complex molecular machine, called the replisome, that ...
Understanding the migration of cancer cells
Jun 23, 2008 |
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[B]Activity of regulatory proteins for the growth of filopodia and lamelopodia clarified[/B] Lamellipodia are veil-shaped protrusions of the plasma membrane, that can turn into upward-curled ruffles if they fail to adhere to ...
From moths and cicadas come improvements to solar cells
Oct 23, 2007 |
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Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs.
Brain cells called astrocytes undergo reorganization and may engulf attacking T cells
Aug 20, 2008 |
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When virally infected cells in the brain called astrocytes come in contact with anti-viral T cells of the immune system, they undergo a unique series of changes that dramatically reorganize their shape and function, according ...
Unique portion of enzyme fights lung infection
Jun 17, 2009 |
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An enzyme known to play a key role in the development of emphysema serves as the first line of defense against bacterial infection of the lung, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. ...
For different species, different functions for embryonic microRNAs
May 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When evolution has lucked into efficient solutions for life’s most fundamental problems, it adopts them as invaluable family heirlooms, passing them down as one species evolves into another. ...
Scientists find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer ...
Researchers identify critical gene for brain development, mental retardation (w/ Video)
Sep 04, 2009 |
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In laying down the neural circuitry of the developing brain, billions of neurons must first migrate to their correct destinations and then form complex synaptic connections with their new neighbors.
Progression of retinal disease linked to cell starvation
Dec 07, 2008 |
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Rods and cones coexist peacefully in healthy retinas. Both types of cells occupy the same layer of tissue and send signals when they detect light, which is the first step in vision. The incurable eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, ...
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 ...
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