News tagged with healthy cells

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Remember magnesium if you want to remember

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers ...

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 3

'Nanobubbles' plus chemotherapy equals single-cell cancer targeting

Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles," researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Searching for fractals may help cancer cell testing

Scientists have long known that healthy cells looked and behaved differently from cancer cells. For instance, the nuclei of healthy cells -- the inner part of the cells where the chromosomes are stored -- ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Meat, fish and ovarian cancer risk

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do meat, fish and ovarian cancer have in common? More than you would think, says Dr Penny Webb from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers identify protein that may explain 'healthy' obesity

Mice whose fat cells were allowed to grow larger than fat cells in normal mice developed "healthy" obesity when fed a high-fat diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found in a new study.

Biology /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alcohol may combat diabetes, in moderation

A couple of beers a day can be part of a healthy lifestyle, and even reduce the risk of developing diabetes, Dutch researchers say.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0