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Nanochannel electroporation: Researchers do precise gene therapy without a needle

For the first time, researchers have found a way to inject a precise dose of a gene therapy agent directly into a single living cell without a needle.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Non-invasive intracellular 'thermometer' with fluorescent proteins created

A team from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) has developed a technique to measure internal cell temperatures without altering their metabolism. This finding could be useful when distinguishing healthy ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use light to switch on gene expression

Imagine being able to control genetic expression by flipping a light switch. Researchers at North Carolina State University are using light-activated molecules to turn gene expression on and off. Their method enables greater ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Jarid2 may break the Polycomb silence

Historically, fly and human Polycomb proteins were considered textbook exemplars of transcriptional repressors, or proteins that silence the process by which DNA gives rise to new proteins. Now, work by a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Nanobubbles' plus chemotherapy equals single-cell cancer targeting

Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles," researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify major source of cells' defense against oxidative stress

Both radiation and many forms of chemotherapy try to kill tumors by causing oxidative stress in cancer cells. New research from USC on a protein that protects cancer and other cells from these stresses could one day help ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An 'immortal' devil's genome and the secrets of a cancer that's catching

Researchers reporting in the February 17th issue of the Cell Press journal Cell have sequenced the complete genome of one immortal devil. The genomes of the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible cancer may he ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Method identifies mutations that drive genetic diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a new computational method allows researchers to identify which specific molecular mechanisms are altered by genetic mutations in proteins that lead to disease. And they ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify potential molecular target to prevent growth of cancer cells

Researchers have shown for the first time that the protein fortilin promotes growth of cancer cells by binding to and rendering inert protein p53, a known tumor suppressor. This finding by researchers at the University of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biological computer destroys cancer cells

Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ultrasensitive particles offer new way to find cancer

About 10 years ago, scientists discovered a new type of genetic material called microRNA, which appears to turn genes on or off inside a cell. More recently, they found that these genetic snippets often go ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists design nano-sized drug transporter to fight disease

Scientists seeking to improve cancer treatments have created a tiny drug transporter that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by finding the equivalent of an expressway into a target cell.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study demonstrates cells can acquire new functions through transcriptional regulatory network

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why 'soot' could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells

Nano-scale tubes made of carbon could be used to safely penetrate human cells and deliver anti-cancer medicines or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy. Although there is a long way to go before the concept ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Express yourself: How zygotes sort out imprinted genes

Writing in the February 17, 2012 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Toronto Western Research Institute peel a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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