News tagged with cellular programming
When dying, bacteria share some characteristics with higher organisms
Do bacteria, like higher organisms, have a built-in program that tells them when to die? The process of apoptosis, or cell death, is an important part of normal animal development. In a new study published March 6 in the ...
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Computer sleuthing helps unravel RNA's role in cellular function
Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out exactly how one of the three building blocks of life forms and functions.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered.
Mar 03, 2011 |
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New function discovered in cancer prevention protein
Protein 53 is very important in protecting against cancer given that it prevents cancer-causing mutations from accumulating and its inactivation is closely linked to the proliferation of tumour cells. UAB (Universitat Autonoma ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Discovery of cellular 'switch' may provide new means of triggering cell death, treating disease
A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Researchers discover second protective role for tumor-suppressor
ATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to oxidative damage outside of the nucleus, researchers report this week ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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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 ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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