News tagged with faseb journal
Adult stem cells carry their own baggage: Epigenetics guides stem cell fate
Adult stem cells and progenitor cells may not come with a clean genetic slate after all. That's because a new report in the FASEB Journal shows that adult stem or progenitor cells have their own unique "epigenetic signat ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Scientists develop a fatty 'kryptonite' to defeat multidrug-resistant 'Super bugs'
"Super bugs," which can cause wide-spread disease and may be resistant to most, if not all, conventional antibiotics, still have their weaknesses. A team of Canadian scientists discovered that specific mixtures of antimicrobial ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Antibody production gets confused during long-term spaceflight
The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flight. In a new report published ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2011 |
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Intelligent design: Engineered protein fragment blocks the AIDS virus from entering cells
In what could be a potential breakthrough in the battle against AIDS and a major development in the rational design of new drugs, scientists have engineered a new protein that prevents the virus from entering cells. This ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Paid access to journal articles not a significant barrier for scientists
They say the best things in life are free, but when it comes to online scientific publishing, a new research report in The FASEB Journal suggests otherwise. In the report, Philip M. Davis from Cornell University shows that f ...
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Why some children are harmed by mother's alcohol, but others aren't
Exposure to alcohol in the womb doesn't affect all fetuses equally. Why does one woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy give birth to a child with physical, behavioral or learning problems -- known as fetal alcohol spectrum ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
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'Junk food' moms have 'junk food' babies
A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that pregnant mothers who eat high sugar and high fat diets have babies who are likely to become junk food junkies themselves. According to the report, which ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Molecule that spurs cell's recycling center may help Alzheimer's patients
Cells, which employ a process called autophagy to clean up and reuse protein debris leftover from biological processes, were the original recyclers. A team of scientists from Paul Greengard's Rockefeller University laboratory ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Scientists discover new compound that rids cells of Alzheimer protein debris
If you can't stop the beta-amyloid protein plaques from forming in Alzheimer's disease patients, then maybe you can help the body rid itself of them instead. At least that's what scientists from New York were ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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New weight loss discovery moves us closer to 'the Pill' for obesity
An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people's waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho, in obese mice with high ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Human stem cells from fat tissue fuse with rat heart cells and beat
If Dr. Doolittle is famous for talking to animals, then here's a story that might make him hold his tongue: According to new research published online in The FASEB Journal, scientists have successfully fused human stem c ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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New research suggests that obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution
As if the recent prediction that half of all Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes by the year 2020 isn't alarming enough, a new genetic discovery published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) provides a disturbing explanation as to wh ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Salivary glands as organs of immunity: New research makes oral immunization easier to swallow
If you don't like shots or needles, you're in luck. New research published online in The FASEB Journal gives the development of new oral vaccinations a shot in the arm thanks to discoveries involving the salivary glands of mic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Scientists climb Mt. Everest to explain how hearts adapt and recover from low oxygen
From the highest mountaintop comes a new research report in the FASEB Journal that gets to the bottom of what happens to the hearts of people when exposed to low-levels of oxygen, such as those on Mount Everest or in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 31, 2011 |
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The microbes in our gut regulate genes that control obesity and inflammation
If you are looking to lose weight in the coming year, you may need help from an unexpected place: the bacteria in your gut. That's because scientists have discovered that the bacteria living in your intestines may play a ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Faseb Journal
FASEB Journal is a scientific journal related to experimental BioSciences, promoting scientific progress and education.
It is published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology , that was founded in 1912 originally by 3 societies (6 in 1989, see current list).
See more at FASEB journal web site: http://www.fasebj.org
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