News tagged with cellular immunity

What makes a worm say 'yuck'

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) say they have uncovered a way that animals detect pathogens in their bodies that allows their systems to respond before cellular damage ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New information on the waste-disposal units of living cells

Important new information on one of the most critical protein machines in living cells has been reported by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal how bacteria build homes inside healthy cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells - and cause disease - by manipulating a natural cellular process.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New membrane lipid measuring technique may help fight disease

Could controlling cell-membrane fat play a key role in turning off disease?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Antibiotic offers potential for anti-cancer activity

An antibiotic known for its immunosuppressive functions could also point the way to the development of new anti-cancer agents, researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have reported.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cell survival protein discovery rewrites immune system story

A discovery by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers in Melbourne, Australia, reported in today's edition of Science, is set to rewrite a long-held belief about how the body's immune system establishes its me ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers pave the way for a better understanding of HIV infection and AIDS

Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens, the result ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

Hijacked supplies for pathogens: Legionnaire's disease bacteria tap into the material transport in immune cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it infects the lungs, the Legionnaire’s bacterium Legionella pneumophila causes acute pneumonia. The pathogen’s modus operandi is particularly ingenious: it infiltrates deliberately into ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Uncapping the mystery behind the mechanism of cap removal from actin filaments

In this study, Shuichi Takeda at Nagoya University and colleagues present the X-ray crystal structures of the actin capping protein (CP) complexed with its inhibitors, V-1 and CARMIL, and demonstrate that the two regulators ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists begin to unravel causes of mysterious skin disease

Scientists including researchers from the University of Florida have discovered additional evidence that generalized vitiligo — a disease that typically causes patches of white skin on the face, neck and extremities that ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Study of MicroRNA Helps Scientists Unlock Secrets of Immune Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the rapid and continuous advances in biotechnology, scientists are better able to see inside the nucleus of a cell to unlock the secrets of its genetic material. However, what happens outside of the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brief exercise reduces impact of stress on cell aging, study shows

Exercise can buffer the effects of stress-induced cell aging, according to new research from UCSF that revealed actual benefits of physical activity at the cellular level.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers use light to coax cells to move

(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose you could get immune cells to move just where you wanted them to in the body - to fight infection or kill a tumor? It may sound like science fiction or magic, but it's not.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The biggest loser: Maternal obesity puts a load on her offspring that lasts a lifetime

As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, adds several more. In a study involving rats, researchers from Duke University found that obesity ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0