News tagged with genetic pathway
Nanochannel electroporation: Researchers do precise gene therapy without a needle
For the first time, researchers have found a way to inject a precise dose of a gene therapy agent directly into a single living cell without a needle.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 16, 2011 |
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New life form found on Earth: Deadly arsenic breathes life into organisms (Update, Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2010 |
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A 'giant' step toward explaining differences in height: Scientists map height 'hotspots' in the genome
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of more than 200 institutions, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, the Broad Institute, and a half-dozen other institutions in Europe and North ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Perhaps a longer lifespan, certainly a longer 'health span'
Organisms from yeast to rodents to humans all benefit from cutting calories. In less complex organisms, restricting calories can double or even triple lifespan. It's not yet clear just how much longer calorie restriction ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Stanford researchers first to turn normal cells into 3-D cancers in tissue culture dishes
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have successfully transformed normal human tissue into three-dimensional cancers in a tissue culture dish for the first time. Watching how the cells behave as they ...
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Biologists learn how plants synthesize their growth hormone auxin
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in unraveling, for the first time, the complete chain of biochemical reactions that controls the synthesis of auxin, the hormone that regulates nearly all ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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RNA interference found in budding yeasts
Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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'Surprising link' leads toward a new antibiotic
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.
May 28, 2009 |
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Conceptualizing cancer cells as ancient 'toolkit'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite decades of research and billions of dollars, cancer remains a major killer, with an uncanny ability to evade both the body's defenses and medical intervention. Now an Arizona State ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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First common genetic risk factors for autism demonstrated
UCLA scientists, in partnership with 30 research institutions across the country, have identified a new gene variant that is highly common in autistic children. And when researchers scrutinized the activity ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Genome-scale network of rice genes to speed the development of biofuel crops
The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researches that includes scientists with the U.S. Department ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce entirely new compounds, some of which could be ...
Jan 19, 2009 |
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New hope in fight against Huntington's disease
Hope for new ways of treating devastating neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's disease has been raised by a trans-Atlantic team of researchers thanks to the use of cutting-edge genetic techniques.
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Study finds genetic link between misery and death
In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. In addition, they found a ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Gut microbes promote cell turnover by a well-known pathway
Microbes matter -- perhaps more than anyone realizes -- in basic biological development and, maybe, they could be a target for reducing cancer risks, according to University of Oregon researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 07, 2010 |
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