Amoeba eat bacteria and other human pathogens, engulfing and destroying them – or being destroyed by them, but how these single-cell organisms distinguish and respond successfully to different bacterial ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 09, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

For much of her professional life, Dr. Susan Rosenberg has studied the puzzling response of bacteria to stress and the mutations that result. In the current issue of the journal Science, she puts together the pieces of tha ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 06, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

The Notch signaling pathway helps determine cell fate determination, differentiation and proliferative ability of numerous cells. How it accomplishes these tasks has been a puzzle, but researchers led by those at Baylor College ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 29, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

Using a new technique called cryo-electron tomography, two research teams at Baylor College of Medicine have created a three-dimensional map that gives a better understanding of how the architecture of the rod sensory cilium ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 21, 2012 not rated yet 0

Notch – the protein that can help determine cell fate – maintains a stable population of basal cells in the prostate through a positive feedback loop system with another key protein – TGF beta (transforming growth factor ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

The androgen receptor in human cells inhibits fat accumulation, but its activity can be sabotaged by glucocorticoids, steroids that regulate fat deposition and are known drivers of obesity and insulin resistance, said researchers ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 20, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

A new semi-automated tool called pathwalking makes it possible to generate a "first draft" model of a protein fold taken from near-atomic resolution images of between three and six angstroms (Å), said researchers at ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Aging takes its toll on sex appeal and now an international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan find that in fruit flies, at least, it even diminishes the come-hither ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 09, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

The many factors that contribute to how cells communicate and function at the most basic level are still not fully understood, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 24, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Ordinarily, embryonic stem cells exist only a day or two as they begin the formation of the embryo itself. Then they are gone.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 13, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

The ability to identify self and non-self enables cells in more sophisticated animals to ward off invading infections, but it is critical to even simpler organisms such as the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 23, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 26, 2011 not rated yet 1

Researchers using DNA microarrays to diagnose developmental disabilities or congenital anomalies in children may unexpectedly identify that some have been conceived through incest. This raises social and legal issues that ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Feb 10, 2011 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

All fat cells are not the same – a fact that has implications in the understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 10, 2011 not rated yet 0

Zinc ions released at the junction between two neurons (called a synapse) are important signals, but when too much zinc accumulates, cells become dysfunctional or die.

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Jan 04, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0 |