News tagged with cell behavior

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3-D RNA modeling opens scientific doors

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Methods, a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrates a simple, cost-effective technique for three-dimensional RNA structure predic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution

A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Songbird brain synapses and glial cells capable of synthesizing estrogen

Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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How work tells muscles to grow

We take it for granted, but the fact that our muscles grow when we work them makes them rather unique. Now, researchers have identified a key ingredient needed for that bulking up to take place. A factor produced in working ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Tracking dragonflies on the wing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University electrical engineers have developed a wirelessly powered telemetry system that is light and powerful enough to allow scientists to study the intricate neurological activity ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How a molecular traffic jam impacts cell division

Interdisciplinary research between biology and physics aims to understand the cell and how it organizes internally. The mechanisms inside the cell are very complicated. LMU biophysicist Professor Erwin Frey, who is also a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Fruit fly intestine may hold secret to the fountain of youth

One of the few reliable ways to extend an organism's lifespan, be it a fruit fly or a mouse, is to restrict calorie intake. Now, a new study in fruit flies is helping to explain why such minimal diets are ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Optimal modulation of ion channels rescues neurons associated with epilepsy

New research successfully reverses epilepsy-associated pathology by using a sophisticated single-cell modeling paradigm to examine abnormal cell behavior and identify the optimal modulation of channel activity. The study, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise boosts health by influencing stem cells to become bone, not fat, researchers find

McMaster researchers have found one more reason to exercise: working out triggers influential stem cells to become bone instead of fat, improving overall health by boosting the body's capacity to make blood.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior

Salmonella cells have hijacked the protein-building process to maintain their ability to cause illness, new research suggests.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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ONR develops capability to understand effects of underwater pressure on divers

Reaching a new threshold in underwater medical studies, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), today announced a novel capability for examining how cells work at pressures far below the sea surface.

Technology / Engineering

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New bioengineering approach: Tiny cell patterns reveal progression of development and disease

Scientists have long known that, to form tissue structures and organs, stem cells migrate and differentiate in response to the other cells, matrix, and signals in their environment. But not much is known about these developmental ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Demonstrating the importance of dynamical systems theory

Two new papers in the Journal of General Physiology demonstrate the successes of using bifurcation theory and dynamical systems approaches to solve biological puzzles.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Key regulators for biofilm development discovered

They can be found everywhere -- organized communities of bacteria sticking to surfaces both inside and outside the body. These biofilms are responsible for some of the most virulent, antibiotic-resistant infections in humans; ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell rigidity linked to activity in proteins associated with cancer

An unusual collaboration between cell and developmental biologists and physicists at UNC-Chapel Hill is providing insights into the relationship between the physical properties of cells and the signals that influence cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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