News tagged with mitochondrial growth

New clues about mitochondrial 'growth spurts'

Mitochondria are restless, continually merging and splitting. But contrary to conventional wisdom, the size of these organelles depends on more than fusion and fission, as Berman et al. show. Mitochondrial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Molecular spectroscopy tracks living mammalian cells in real time as they differentiate

Knowing how a living cell works means knowing how the chemistry inside the cell changes as the functions of the cell change. Protein phosphorylation, for example, controls everything from cell proliferation ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cancer-like way upon implanting in uterus

Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers report today. These stem cells start using ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the European conquest affected Native Americans

Researchers from Germany and the United States suggest that the European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population. The results of their study provide new insight into the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New mitochondria mechanism identified

A team of researchers led by the University of Freiburg in Germany has identified a novel mechanism that plays a key role in the architecture and functioning of mitochondria - the power plants of the cell, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find way to block stress-related cell death

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers provide genetic evidence that antioxidants can help treat cancer

Researchers from Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center have genetic evidence suggesting the antioxidant drugs currently used to treat lung disease, malaria and even the common cold can also help prevent and treat cancers because ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Apoptotic mechanisms of octreotide on HepG2

A research team from Greece examined the effect of octreotide on cellular proliferation, apoptosis and caspase activation in HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. The results supported the induction of caspase-mediated ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

How cells running on empty trigger fuel recycling

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered how AMPK, a metabolic master switch that springs into gear when cells run low on energy, revs up a cellular recycling program to free ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientist: Functional amino acids regulate key metabolic pathways

Functional amino acids play a critical role in the development of both animals and humans, according to a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago

The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 35 | with audio podcast


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