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

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

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

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

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

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants - but despised by noblemen - during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today’s greatest grape varieties, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Research uncovers clues to virus-cancer link

In a series of recently-published articles, a research team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered clues to the development of cancers in AIDS patients.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Immune cell type controls onset and course of severe malaria

Scientists have determined that a subset of immune cells may cause malaria patients to contract the severe form of the disease, suffering worse symptoms. Led by Monash University immunologist Professor Magdalena Plebanski, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Beyond associations: Colorectal cancer culprit found

Genetics plays a key role in determining risk for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Several common genetic markers have been found to be associated with the disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells

A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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