Tumour-blocking role found for cell regulation molecule
Manchester scientists have explored the role of a protein in regulating tumour development and found that it suppresses liver cancer growth in the lab.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2015
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News tagged with liver cells
Researchers model the mechanics of cells' long-range communication
Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and other organs.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 22, 2014
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A new imaging approach for monitoring cell metabolism
Scientists at EPFL have used a new imaging technique to monitor how glucose, our main energy source, is used in the body. Their findings may have great implications for diseases like diabetes.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2014
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Researcher's nanoparticle key to new malaria vaccine
A self-assembling nanoparticle designed by a UConn professor is the key component of a potent new malaria vaccine that is showing promise in early tests.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 4, 2014
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Tissue development 'roadmap' created to guide stem cell medicine
In a boon to stem cell research and regenerative medicine, scientists at Boston Children's Hospital, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Boston University have created a computer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 14, 2014
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Ingested nanoparticles may damage liver
(Phys.org) —Nanoparticles in food, sunscreen and other everyday products have many benefits. But Cornell biomedical scientists are finding that at certain doses, the particles might cause human organ damage.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 12, 2014
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Minimizing the cellular contaminants that plague the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have the potential to form more than 200 distinct cell types in the human body. Although ESCs can differentiate into any specialized tissue, scientists are still unsure of how to coax these pluripotent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 18, 2014
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Mammalian cells engineered to produce longer-lived versions of therapeutic protein erythropoietin
Erythropoietin (EPO)—a key regulator of red blood cell production—is widely used for treating certain cancers and anemia induced by chronic kidney disease. However, the time that EPO resides in the bloodstream depends ...
Biotechnology
Jun 4, 2014
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Recycling of 'chauffeur protein' helps regulate fat production
Studying a cycle of protein interactions needed to make fat, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a biological switch that regulates a protein that causes fatty liver disease in mice. Their findings, they report, ...
Biochemistry
Feb 10, 2014
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Stem cells on the road to specialization
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have gained new insight into how both early embryonic cells and embryonic stem cells are directed into becoming specialised cell types, like pancreatic and liver cells. The results ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 7, 2014
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