News tagged with heterogeneous disease

Breast cancer etiology may vary by subtype

Women's reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases, presented in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research, suggests that t ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researcher presents latest work on tracking ideas in social media

Indiana University's Filippo Menczer has shown how to "out" political astroturfers through his complex networks laboratory's study of information diffusion on Twitter. The research team went on to learn that while retweet ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The splice of life: Proteins cooperate to regulate gene splicing

Understanding how RNA binding proteins control the genetic splicing code is fundamental to human biology and disease – much like editing film can change a movie scene. Abnormal variations in splicing ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Examining evolution from a cellular perspective

The evolutionary processes of unicellular and multicellular organisms are continually under debate. John Torday, Ph.D., a lead investigator at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), has recently co-authored ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genomic sequence and comparison of two macaques reveal new insights into biomedical research

The South China Center for Innovative Pharmaceuticals, Sun Yat-Sen University, and BGI, the world's largest genomic organization, announced that they were among the research organizations from China, US and UK comprising ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nano-thermometers show first temperature response differences within living cells

Using a modern version of open-wide-and-keep-this-under-your-tongue, scientists today reported taking the temperature of individual cells in the human body, and finding for the first time that temperatures ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Insights into the story of the eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although it is well established that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have the capacity to develop into every adult cell type in the body, mysteries abound regarding the process by which the differentiation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New nanoscale imaging may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis

Laboratory studies by chemical engineers at UC Santa Barbara may lead to new experimental methods for early detection and diagnosis -- and to possible treatments -- for pathological tissues that are precursors ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop platform to monitor hematopoietic stem cells

A Canadian research team has developed an automated microfluidic cell culture platform to monitor the growth, survival and responses of hundreds of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at the single cell level.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer modeling used to study protein involved with cancer, aging and chronic disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new biophysical and biochemical study may lead to better understanding of how structural flexibility controls the interaction of a protein that is closely involved with cancer, aging and other chronic diseases ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Understanding methods of assessing botulinum neurotoxin exposure

Popular in cosmetic medicine for making tiny frown wrinkles go away, botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is, perhaps, more notorious for historic outbreaks of respiratory paralysis and death. Traditionally, medical responders have ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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