News tagged with organ tissue

Researchers find a way to delay aging of stem cells

Stem cells are essential building blocks for all organisms, from plants to humans. They can divide and renew themselves throughout life, differentiating into the specialized tissues needed during development, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Strategy discovered to activate genes that suppress tumors and inhibit cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow

A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Keeping track to selenium metabolism

Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New dye could open the door to in vivo applications of fluorescence anisotropy

(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists have synthesized a polymethine dye that can be used for fluorescence anisotropy imaging in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range, making new in vivo applications of this technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Bacterial plasmids -- the freeloading and the heavy-lifters -- balance the high price of disease

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Ind ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Discovery of 'bioelectric' arteries opens path to heart disease treatment

Bionic eyes and limbs made television's six million dollar man an icon, but new research suggests our existing biological structure already exhibits a valuable electrical property. Scientists have found that ...

Physics / General Physics

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Stockholm Convention scientists seek ban on chemical

Scientists at the Stockholm Convention, which interdicts dangerous chemicals, said on Friday they will recommend the banning of a flame retardant commonly used in polystyrene.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using lasers to vaporize tissue at multiple points simultaneously

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a new technique that uses a single UV laser pulse to zap away biological tissue at multiple points simultaneously, a method that could help scientists study ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Research team develops advanced live-imaging approach (w/ video)

For modern biologists, the ability to capture high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of living tissues or organisms over time is necessary to answer problems in areas ranging from genomics to neurobiology ...

Physics / General Physics

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More than bacon: Genetic alterations in pig tissue may allow for human transplantation

A sizzling genetic discovery by Chinese scientists may one day allow pig tissue to be transplanted successfully into humans. Their research presented in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology represents a major step forward toward ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Researchers discover how plants control the formation of wood cells

An international research group headed by Professor and Research Director Yrjo Helariutta has discovered the genetic process that controls the development of wood cells in the roots of plants. Wood is the vascular tissue ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have identified how nanoparticles from diesel exhaust damage lung airway cells, a finding that could lead to new therapies for people susceptible to airway disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

For ever and ever: When the wedding flight never ends

German entomologists have now "resurrected" the fossil insect Mengea tertiara. Using high resolution micro-computer tomography the anatomy of an extinct insect was completely reconstructed three-dimensionally ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Royal head: Scientists identify murdered French king

He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit with the ladies and was the first to dream of putting a chicken ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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