News tagged with molecular endocrinology

Searching for better ways to treat prostate disorders

Innovative new technology has been used to identify and profile a novel combination of proteins that may improve treatment for prostate disorders. The study will be published in the April 13th 2012 edition ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fireflies and jellyfish help illuminate quest for cause of infertility

Genes taken from fireflies and jellyfish are literally shedding light on possible causes of infertility and autoimmune diseases in humans.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers discover cellular system for detecting and responding to poisons and pathogens

Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | 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

Scientists call for 'swifter and sounder' testing of chemicals

Scientific societies representing 40,000 researchers and clinicians are asking that federal regulators tap a broader range of expertise when evaluating the risks of chemicals to which Americans are being increasingly exposed.

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Yo-yo dieting alters genes linked with stress

Stressed-out mice with a history of dieting ate more high-fat foods than similarly stressed mice not previously on diets, according to a new study in the Dec. 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that m ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genomic 'markers' may head off thousands of thyroid surgeries

Doctors at the University of Colorado School of Medicine were concerned recently when they found a nodule in the thyroid of a 64-year-old Colorado man. They extracted cells from the nodule, hoping to determine whether the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery opens new window on development, and maybe potential, of human egg cells

Fertility procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) require a couple and the doctor to place the risky bet that the multiple eggs they choose to fertilize will produce an embryo that will thrive in the uterus. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study IDs proteins regulating water retention in salt-sensitive hypertension

Research conducted by scientists at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has found that two proteins in the brain act as valves to turn the hormone that regulates water retention in the body on and off. Their findings may ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Early research reveals new clues to origin of diabetes

University of Michigan scientists have identified events inside insulin-producing pancreatic cells that set the stage for a neonatal form of non-autoimmune type 1 diabetes, and may play a role in type 2 diabetes as well. ...

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created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify key reproductive hormone in oldest vertebrate

Looking at a hagfish – an eyeless, snot-covered, worm-like scavenger of the deep – the last thing that comes to mind is sex. Yet the reproductive functioning of these ancient vertebrates is such ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chromosomal break gives scientists a break in finding new puberty gene

A break in the two chromosomes has given scientists a break in finding a new gene involved in puberty, Medical College of Georgia researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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