News tagged with schwann cells

Mystery solved: Facial cancer decimating Tasmanian devils likely began in Schwann cells

An international team of scientists led by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) investigator has discovered that the deadly facial tumors decimating Australia's Tasmanian devil population probably originated ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Protein identified as critical to insulating the body's wiring could also become treatment target

A new protein identified as critical to insulating the wiring that connects the brain and body could one day be a treatment target for divergent diseases, from rare ones that lower the pain threshold to cancer, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0