News tagged with respiratory cell

Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations

Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Virus 'barcodes' offer rapid detection of mutated strains

Researchers at the University of Leeds are developing a way to 'barcode' viral diseases to rapidly test new outbreaks for potentially lethal mutations.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find measles' natural nemesis

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found that a known enzyme in cells protects against measles virus, likely by altering the virus's genetic material, RNA. Cells lacking the enzyme become highly vulnerable ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Respiratory virus infection triggers new class of biomolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have discovered that a poorly understood class of RNA produced in a mammal's cells during a respiratory virus attack may affect the outcome of the infection. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cigarette smoke causes harmful changes in the lungs even at the lowest levels

Casual smokers may think that smoking a few cigarettes a week is "no big deal." But according to new research from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, having an infrequent smoke, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bright stars of the brain regulate breathing

Astrocytes - brain cells named after their characteristic star-shape and previously thought to act only as the 'glue' between neurons, have a central role in the regulation of breathing, according to scientists.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Reovirus may be a novel approach to prostate cancer treatment

Researchers in Canada have detected a novel oncolytic viral therapy against prostate cancer with use of a virus called the reovirus, according to study results published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Matrix protein key to fighting viruses

Researchers from Durham University's Centre for Bioactive Chemistry are developing methods that show how proteins interact with cell membranes when a virus strikes. Using their approach, the team hopes to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vitamin D levels linked to asthma severity

New research provides evidence for a link between vitamin D insufficiency and asthma severity.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New insight into an old reaction: Adenylylation regulates cell signaling

A new study reveals the importance of adenylylation in the regulation of cell signaling from bacteria to higher organisms. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, provid ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Manipulated gatekeeper: How viruses find their way into the cell nucleus

Adenoviruses cause respiratory diseases and are more dangerous for humans than previously assumed. They manipulate gatekeeper molecules and infiltrate the cell nucleus with the aid of the host cell. A team of researchers ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Mannan oligosaccharides offer health benefits to pigs

Feeding mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) can fine-tune the immune system of pigs, suggests a new University of Illinois study.

Biology / Other

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Protein associated with allergic response causes airway changes in asthma patients

Changes that occur in the airways of asthma patients are in part caused by the naturally occurring protein interleukin-13 (IL-13) which stimulates invasion of airway cells called fibroblasts, according to a study conducted ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists find key mechanism of childhood respiratory disease

Researchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tanning bed exposure can be deadly when complicated by medication reactions

Tanning bed exposure can produce more than some tanners may bargain for, especially when they self-diagnose and use the radiation to treat skin eruptions, according to research conducted by the Indiana University School of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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