News tagged with rod cells
Moving beyond embryonic stem cells: Encouragement on the horizon
For nearly two decades, the medical world and the American public have grappled with the lightning-rod topic of stem cells, in particular the controversy surrounding cells from human embryos. But when researchers four years ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Using gold particles to fight cancer
Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Tick tock: Rods help set internal clocks, biologist says
We run our modern lives largely by the clock, from the alarms that startle us out of our slumbers and herald each new workday to the watches and clocks that remind us when it's time for meals, after-school pick-up and the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 17, 2010 |
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A secret to night vision found in DNA's unconventional 'architecture'
Researchers have discovered an important element for making night vision possible in nocturnal mammals: the DNA within the photoreceptor rod cells responsible for low light vision is packaged in a very unconventional way, ...
Apr 16, 2009 |
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The difference between eye cells is... sumo?
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2009 |
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