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New ethical questions are being raised in stem cell research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A groundbreaking discovery two years ago that turned ordinary skin cells back into an embryonic or "pluripotent" state was hailed as the solution to the controversial ethical question that has plagued stem-cell science for ...


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...


Drug kills cells through novel mechanism

Drug kills cells through novel mechanism

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves — a conclusion that raises the possibility of finding ...


Researchers identify a scaffold regulating protein disposal

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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How does a cell manage to identify and degrade the diverse types of defective proteins and thus protect the body against serious diseases? The researchers Sabine C. Horn, Professor Thomas Sommer, Professor Udo Heinemann and ...


Researchers show 'trigger' to stem cell differentiation

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A gene which is essential for stem cells' capabilities to become any cell type has been identified by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco.


Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A never-approved drug developed to prevent the death of nerve cells after a stroke can efficiently kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy and intact, an international team led by a Tel Aviv University ...


Scientists identify natural anti-cancer defenses

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Canadian researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that prevents cancer. In the December 11 edition of the prestigious journal Molecular Cell, scientists from the Université de Montréal and th ...


Extended youthfulness as a prevention for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Therapies that can keep us younger longer might also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, suggests a new study of mice in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.


Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the ...


Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible ...



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