News tagged with living cells
Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells
Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 26, 2009 |
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Looking for the heartbeat of cellular networks
Our cells' molecules form an intricate network of interactions. Today's techniques, however, can only be used to measure individual molecular reactions outside the cells. Since molecular concentrations are much higher in ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Shedding light on cancer cells
Scientists label cells with coloured or glowing chemicals to observe how basic cellular activities differ between healthy and cancerous cells. Existing techniques for labelling cells are either too slow or too toxic to perform ...
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Cooperative forces boost collective mobility of cells
An article by Dr. Xavier Trepat, senior researcher of the Cellular and respiratory biomechanics group at the University of Barcelona, Spain, contributes for the first time an experimental answer to the question ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Sometimes it's just easier to use a pencil
I wonder sometimes how I got along without many of today's technological marvels. The personal computer is the one that stands out most to me but before I get into that, I decided to list some of the technology items that ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Alzheimer cell death in Zebrafish: Demise of neurons observed live for the first time
Extensive death of nerve cells leads to severe dementia in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Until now, it has only been possible to investigate the neuronal devastation in post mortem animal models, and by using complicated ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells
Biomedical engineers have developed a new type of probe that allows them to visualize single ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules within live cells more easily than existing methods. The tool will help scientists ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Some cell phones to get live NCAA tournament games
(AP) -- March Madness is in the air. To be more specific, it's on airwaves that certain AT&T and Verizon Wireless phones can pick up, letting them show live NCAA basketball tournament games this season.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Scientists determine 3D structure of proteins in living cells for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Glasgow scientist was part of a team of researchers which has, for the first time, been able to determine the three-dimensional structure of protein in living cells.
Mar 05, 2009 |
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'Dark cells' of living retina imaged for the first time
A layer of "dark cells" in the retina that is responsible for maintaining the health of the light-sensing cells in our eyes has been imaged in a living retina for the first time.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Human beta cells can be easily induced to replicate
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully induced human insulin-producing cells, known as beta cells, to replicate robustly in a living animal, as well as in the lab. The discovery not ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 13, 2009 |
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