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Discovery of earliest life forms' operation promises new therapies for key diseases

Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important perspective on potential therapies for some of the most common, deadly diseases. Researchers at Case ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How key genes cooperate to make healthy skin

Skin is the body's armor, protecting us from disease agents, injury, excessive water loss, and cold and heat. Yet mutations in a single gene, the gene for the protein p63, cause numerous diseases and malformations ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'TF beacons' may light path to new cancer tests and drugs

Scientists are reporting development of a long-sought new way to detect the activity of proteins that bind to the DNA in genes, often controlling the activity of genes in ways that make cells do everything ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanosensors made from DNA may light path to new cancer tests and drugs

Sensors made from custom DNA molecules could be used to personalize cancer treatments and monitor the quality of stem cells, according to an international team of researchers led by scientists at UC Santa ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Orchestrator of waste removal rescues cells that can't manage their trash

Just as we must take out the trash to keep our homes clean and safe, it is essential that our cells have mechanisms for dealing with wastes and worn-out proteins. When these processes are not working properly, unwanted debris ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Silica microspheres in liquid crystals offer the possibility of creating every knot conceivable

Knots can now be tied systematically in the microscopic world. A team of scientists led by Uros Tkalec from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia), who has been working at the Max Planck Institute ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Leaky genes put evolution on the fast track, researchers find

Small genetic mutations that add up over time could create an evolutionary express lane that leads to the rapid development of new traits, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Extensive protein interaction network controls gene regulation

The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

How plants self heal

Many animals and plants regenerate tissues or even whole organs after injury. Typically, specialized cells at the wound site revert to a ‘pluripotent’ state–via a process called dedifferentiation—which ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New transcription factor reveals molecular mechanism for wound-induced organ regeneration

Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have identified a novel transcription factor controlling how plants ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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