News tagged with cell networks

Slime mold mimics Canadian highway network (w/ video)

Queen's University professor Selim Akl has provided additional proof to the theory that nature computes.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Cell protein interactions favor fats

For cells to signal each other to carry out their vital work, could the cell membrane's lipids -- or fats -- play a role in buttering-up the process? A research group led by University of Illinois at Chicago chemistry professor ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Dish closes on 2 purchases key to broadband plans

(AP) -- Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. has completed its purchase of two satellite operators whose licenses it hopes to use to offer broadband access that can help it compete better with cable TV and phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover cell phone hackers can track your location without your knowledge

Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by computer scientists in the University ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify novel regulatory network within legumes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three collaborating laboratories in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware -- those of professors Blake Meyers, Janine Sherrier and Pamela J. Green -- recently ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How the brain cell works: A dive into its inner network

University of Miami biology professor Akira Chiba is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop the first systematic survey of protein interactions within brain cells. The team is aiming to reconstruct genome-wide ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market

(AP) -- Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coming soon to a server near you: fewer internet delays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UA-led Center for Integrated Access Networks, the largest optical research center in the U.S., are developing methods to improve transmission speed, efficiency and reliability ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Manipulating single molecules to unravel secrets of protein folding

Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are opening a new window into the life of biological cells, using a technique that lets them grab the ends of a single protein molecule and pull, making ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pew study: Tablet users don't want to pay for news

Although tablet owners spend more time consuming news than poking around on Facebook, they're reluctant to pay for news content.

Technology / Business

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google to offer tracking opt-out to Wi-Fi owners (Update)

(AP) -- Google Inc. is going to let people with home wireless networks decide whether they want to be lumped into a system that helps pinpoint the locations of people on cell phones.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Bursting neurons follow the same beat, sometimes

A simplified mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry shows that repetitious, overlapped firing of neurons can lead to the waves of overly synchronized brain activity that may cause the halting movements that are ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers

The days of waiting for smartphones to upload video may be numbered. Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 19 | with audio podcast