News tagged with cell markers

Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates

A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnology researchers develop new strategy to deliver chemotherapy to prostate cancer cells

Honing chemotherapy delivery to cancer cells is a challenge for many researchers. Getting the cancer cells to take the chemotherapy "bait" is a greater challenge. But perhaps such a challenge has not been met with greater ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Circulating tumor cells predicted recurrence, death in patients with early-stage breast cancer

The presence of one to four circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of early-stage breast cancer patients almost doubled patient's risk of cancer relapse and death, and five or more CTCs increased recurrence by 400 percent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic link found between spinal arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease

Researchers at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute in Brisbane, Australia, have found that a form of spinal arthritis is genetically linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The study will be published on December ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ replacement treatment

Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient's own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

You are not what you eat

The types of gut bacteria that populate the guts of primates depend on the species of the host as well as where the host lives and what they eat. A study led by Howard Ochman at Yale University examines the gut microbial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study sheds light on cancer-causing gene regulation

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have uncovered the genes that regulate MDM2, an oncogene that, in turn, regulates the tumor suppressor protein p53. But instead of an on-off switch for MDM2, the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic

(PhysOrg.com) -- The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs

Twenty-five years after publishing the mnemonic "ABCD" to facilitate the early diagnosis of melanoma, the group who came up with that moniker says early detection remains a key factor in lowering mortality from malignant ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement

Scientists in Southampton, UK, and Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein (FP) originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as a marker protein ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Catching multiple sclerosis before it strikes

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an equal opportunity destroyer. It attacks the central nervous system and eventually renders most patients disabled. Among its high-profile victims are celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pre, whose ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Stanford scientists find new marker to identify severe breast cancer cases

Women with breast cancer whose tumors express high levels of a particular genetic marker are significantly more likely to die from their disease than are those with more normal levels, according to researchers at Stanford ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Examining alcohol use disorders through gene networks instead of individual genes

Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are influenced by multiple genetic, environmental and behavioral factors, which makes it difficult to find individual genetic markers to help identify those at risk of developing AUDs. This study ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Top 10 Sci-Tech Stories Of The Decade

Discoveries, devices, and developments that have changed the way we view our world over the past ten years.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Mystery solved: Facial cancer decimating Tasmanian devils likely began in Schwann cells

An international team of scientists led by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) investigator has discovered that the deadly facial tumors decimating Australia's Tasmanian devil population probably originated ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast