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Just like cars, developmental genes have more than one way to stop

There's more than one way to silence gene activity, according to a Michigan State University researcher.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find explanation for rapid maturation of neurons at birth

At the moment a newborn switches from amniotic fluid to breathing air, another profound shift occurs: nerve cells in the brain convert from hyperexcitability to a calm frame against which outside signals can be detected.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

The evolution of gene regulation: How microbial neighbors settle differences

Supply and demand could be a governing principle even at the genetic level, because most genes are only expressed when needed. Biologists at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany, show that in microbes evolutionary ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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The machinery of chromatin regulation

Ten years after the human genome was first published, researchers have found new clues into the machinery that influences gene function. The team, led by Bradley Bernstein, an associate professor of pathology ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Engineered, drug-secreting blood vessels reverse anemia in mice

Patients who rely on recombinant, protein-based drugs must often endure frequent injections, often several times a week, or intravenous therapy. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston demonstrate the possibility that blood ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Knocking out key protein in mice boosts insulin sensitivity

By knocking out a key regulatory protein, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland dramatically boosted ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists reverse sickle cell anemia by turning on fetal hemoglobin

Not long after birth, human babies transition from producing blood containing oxygen-rich fetal hemoglobin to blood bearing the adult hemoglobin protein. For children with sickle cell disease, the transition from the fetal ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The battle of the morphogens: How to get ahead in the nervous system

If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage in a battle with consequences much more dire ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find master switch for adult epilepsy

UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Role of gene regulator in skeletal muscles demonstrated

Fast muscles, such as the thigh muscle in a sprinter, deliver energy quickly but fatigue quickly. Slow muscles, such as the soleus muscle in the lower calf, are less forceful but important for posture and endurance. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Discovery of two new genes provides hope for stemming Staph infections

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of two genes that encode copper- and sulfur-binding repressors in the hospital terror Staphylococcus aureus means two new potential avenues for controlling the increasingly drug-resistant ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers make the leap to whole-cell simulations

Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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