News tagged with cell replication
Visualizing virus replication in three dimensions
Dengue fever is the most common infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes - some 100 million people around the world are infected. Researchers at the Hygiene Institute at Heidelberg University Hospital ...
May 07, 2009 |
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HIV pays a price for invisibility
Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus's ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The study was publis ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Compounds that trigger beta cell replication identified
Researchers at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) have identified a set of compounds that can trigger the proliferation of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, using sophisticated high-throughput ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 25, 2009 |
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New study identifies how ebola virus avoids the immune system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have likely found one reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and effective virus. Using a cell culture model ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Human beta cells can be easily induced to replicate
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully induced human insulin-producing cells, known as beta cells, to replicate robustly in a living animal, as well as in the lab. The discovery not ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Biologists discover link between CGG repeats in DNA and neurological disorders
Researchers have long known that some repetitive DNA sequences can make human chromosomes "fragile," i.e. appearing constricted or even broken during cell divisions. Scientists at Tufts University have found that one such ...
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Jan 11, 2009 |
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