News tagged with metabolic state

Long-sought protein structure may help reveal how 'gene switch' works (Video)

The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Longevity breakthrough: The metabolic state of mitochondria controls life span

If you think life's too short, then you're not alone. A team of scientists from Texas set out to find what it would take to live a very long life and they made important discoveries that bring longer life spans much closer ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists unlock possible aging secret in genetically altered fruit fly

Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process.

Biology /

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study identifies potential way to reverse cancer cell metabolism and tumor growth

A team of scientists led by Professor Adrian Krainer, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has discovered molecular factors in cancer cells that boost the production of an enzyme that helps alter the cells' glucose metabolism. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast