News tagged with metabolic programming

Oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage of organic carbon and have a long-term effect ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover second protective role for tumor-suppressor

ATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to oxidative damage outside of the nucleus, researchers report this week ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast