News tagged with pyruvate
Transporter could help breast cancer cells commit suicide
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Researchers are trying to open a door for a killer that breast cancer cells shut out.
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Joint research into an enzyme that causes genetic diseases
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Researchers from CIC bioGUNE's Structural Biology Unit and Columbia University (New York) have conducted a joint research project, published in the prestigious scientific journal Structure, to gain in-depth knowledge of the ...
Scientists identify roots of diabetic tissue damage
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Results from comprehensive assessments of diabetes' effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damage to nerves, blood vessels and other tissues, according to researchers at Washington ...
Study helps explain fundamental process of tumor growth
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Nearly 80 years ago, scientist Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells perform energy metabolism in a way that is different from normal adult cells. Many decades later, this observation was exploited by clinicians to better ...
Blood sugar's manufacture limited by building blocks' supply
Apr 03, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered a factor that controls blood sugar's manufacture in a novel way: by limiting the supply of its building blocks. The findings are reported in the April issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, publis ...
Mutation in human gene helps protect against fatal malaria
Apr 21, 2008 |
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New research suggests that not everyone who is bitten by a malaria-infected mosquito develops life threatening health problems according to scientists at the University of Toronto.
New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
Cancers' sweet tooth may be weakness
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered.
Key discovered to cold tolerance in corn
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Aug 29, 2008 |
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Demand for corn -- the world's number one feed grain and a staple food for many -- is outstripping supply, resulting in large price increases that are forecast to continue over the next several years. If corn's intolerance ...
Giant grass offers clues to growing corn in cooler climes, researchers report
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Sep 15, 2008 |
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A giant perennial grass used as a biofuels source has a much longer growing season than corn, and researchers think they've found the secret of its success. Their findings offer a promising avenue for developing ...
Could standard treatment for traumatic brain injury be wrong?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Traumatic brain injury — not heart disease, stroke or cancer — is the number one cause of death and disability in people under 45. Each year, some 1.5 million Americans, including soldiers, athletes, the elderly and children, ...
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