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New system finds prostate cancer spread earlier than conventional imaging

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a way to image the spread of a particularly dangerous form of prostate cancer earlier than conventional imaging in use today, which may allow oncologists ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'GPS system' for protein synthesis in nerve cells gives clues for understanding brain disorders

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania explain how a class of RNA molecules is able to target the genetic building blocks that guide the functioning of a specific part of the nerve cell. Abnormalities at this site are ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genetic tool helps improve rice

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a new tool for improving the expression of desirable genes in rice in parts of the plant where the results will do the most good.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Protecting cells from their neighbors

Almost all organisms evolve from a single cell, a fertilised egg. In the first hours after fertilisation, the fate of its future development is determined. It is dictated by the separation of cells that will become sperm ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0