When most people think of colour change, they think of octopuses or chameleons – but the ability to rapidly change colour is surprisingly widespread.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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Researchers have shown theoretically how to control or eliminate the formation of "dendrites" that cause lithium-ion batteries to fail, an advance that if realized would improve safety and might enable the ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 05, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 4 |

Over the past several years, Rong Li, Ph.D., at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has been making crucial discoveries about the development of cell polarity—the process by which one side of a cell ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 22, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1 |

With applications spanning from non-shrink dental fillings to DNA-drugs the so-called dendrimers are a near magical material. Now a chemist from the University of Copenhagen has vowed to make the weird molecules famous.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jan 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 2

Over the course of decades or even centuries, Earth's landscape can appear relatively static, with mountains and valleys seemingly anchored firmly in place. Viewed over a longer timescale, however—on the ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Apr 23, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

A study in worms that are less than a millimetre long has yielded clues that may be important for understanding how nerves grow.

Biology - Other

Sep 20, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

SUNY Downstate scientist Ilham Muslimov, MD, PhD, along with senior author Henri Tiedge, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology and of neurology, published a study suggesting that cellular dysregulation associated ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 07, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

May 03, 2011 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

A dendritic cell vaccine personalized for each individual based on the patient's own tumor may increase median survival time in those with a deadly form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, an early phase study at UCLA's ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Mar 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The sensory cells in the retina of the mammalian eye convert light stimuli into electrical signals and transmit them via downstream interneurons to the retinal ganglion cells which, in turn, forward them to ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 09, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania explain how a class of RNA molecules is able to target the genetic building blocks that guide the functioning of a specific part of the nerve cell. Abnormalities at this site are ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Feb 17, 2011 4.9 / 5 (51) 15 |

A new process for creating a personalized vaccine may become a crucial tool in helping patients with colorectal cancer develop an immune response against their own tumors. This dendritic cell (DC) vaccine, developed at Dartmouth ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Nov 24, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

Dendritic cells, known to be the prime movers of the body's immune response, are still notoriously difficult to study in humans. Samples, which come primarily from bone marrow or lymphoid tissue, are simply too difficult ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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