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Paradoxical protein might prevent cancer
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
When intestinal bacteria go surfing
Mar 19, 2009 |
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The bacterium Escherichia coli is part of the healthy human intestinal flora. However, E. coli also has pathogenic relatives that trigger diarrhea illnesses: enterohemorrhagic E.coli bacteria. During the course of an inf ...
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'Switch off, light on': Molecular biologist discovers new control mechanism in cell signalling
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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Manuela Baccarini of the Centre for Molecular Biology of the University of Vienna, Austria, investigates a group of proteins which are important for cell division and therefore also for uncontrolled cell growth as occurring ...
Discovery of new signal pathway important to diabetes research
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Miami University have discovered that cells in the pancreas cooperate – signal – in a way hitherto unknown. The discovery can eventually be of significance to the treatment ...
Lack of specific gene plays role in autism
Feb 09, 2009 |
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It is estimated that three to six out of every 1,000 children in the United States have autism - and the number of diagnosed cases is rising. Autism is one of a group of series developmental problems called autism spectrum ...
Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have discovered a key missing link in the so-called signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). Many important signaling ...
NPs-NPR-B/pGC-cGMP signal pathway is involved in diabetic gastroparesis
May 13, 2009 |
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The natriuretic peptide (NP) receptor type B (NPR-B) gene was expressed in gastric smooth muscles of normal and diabetic rats and the expression was increased in diabetic rats. These results suggest that natriuretic peptide-dependent ...
Of cyclops and lilies: New strategy for the synthesis of cylcopamine, a potential cancer treatment
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1957, shepherds in Idaho (USA) discovered that when pregnant sheep ate lilies of the species Veratrum californicum (corn lily, California false hellebore), their lambs were born with only one eye in the ...
A switch that controls whether cells pass point of no return
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Mar 23, 2008 |
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Investigators at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy have revealed the hidden properties of an on-off switch that governs cell growth.
Why the thumb of the right hand is on the left hand side
May 22, 2009 |
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It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the renowned journal Current Biology, a team of molecular biologists led by Pia ...
Some light shed on blood sugar production
Apr 30, 2008 |
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A University of Alberta diabetes researcher has collaborated on a body of diabetes research that has unravelled the signalling pathway mystery that controls the production of blood sugar.
Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity
Jun 02, 2009 |
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In recent years, obesity has taken on epidemic proportions in developed nations, contributing significantly to major medical problems, early death and rising health care costs. According to Centers for Disease Control and ...
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