News tagged with tissue factor

Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists

It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 7

A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study reveals major genetic differences between blood and tissue cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a group of Montreal scientists calls into question one of the most basic assumptions of human genetics: that when it comes to DNA, every cell in the body is essentially identical ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers create atlas of transcription factor combinations

In a significant leap forward in the understanding of how specific types of tissue are determined to develop in mammals, an international team of scientists has succeeded in mapping the entire network of DNA-binding transcription ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Depression may nearly double risk of dementia

A new study shows that having depression may nearly double your risk of developing dementia later in life. The research will be published in the July 6, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Capillary formation’s mechanical determinants: One growth factor can have many effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers have established a link between the growth of blood vessels and the mechanical stresses caused by the environment within which the vessels grow, a new understanding that ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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

On your last nerve: Researchers advance understanding of stem cells

Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The amount of adipose tissue should be taken into account in the fight against obesity

Obesity is seen as the great pandemia of the XXI century. Recent data point to more than a billion adults in the world suffering from overweight, of which 300 million are clinically obese. What is more, the rates of child ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1