News tagged with repair system

New information on the waste-disposal units of living cells

Important new information on one of the most critical protein machines in living cells has been reported by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Singapore scientists discover how to control fate of stem cells

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers implicate wayward DNA-repair enzyme in Friedreich's ataxia

Scripps Research Institute scientists have taken a step closer to understanding the cause of Friedreich's ataxia, a debilitating neurological condition that affects tens of thousands of people worldwide, and so far has no ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Regeneration can be achieved after chronic spinal cord injury

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment delayed is more than a year after the original ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Gentle touch may aid multiple sclerosis patients

(PhysOrg.com) -- While gripping, lifting or manipulating an object such as drinking from a cup or placing a book on a shelf is usually easy for most, it can be challenging for those with neurological diseases such as multiple ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover RNA repair system in bacteria

In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

One small step for neurons, one giant leap for nerve cell repair

The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Protein complex key in avoiding DNA repair mistakes, cancer

As the body creates antibodies to fight invaders, a three-protein DNA repair complex called MRN is crucial for a normal gene-shuffling process to proceed properly, University of Michigan research shows.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Finding the Right Connection after Spinal Cord Injury

In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2