News tagged with tissue growth

Scientists present first model of how buds grow into leaves

Leaves come in all shapes and sizes. Scientists have discovered simple rules that control leaf shape during growth. Using this 'recipe', they have developed the first computer model able to accurately emulate ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tissue structure delays cancer development

Cancer growth normally follows a lengthy period of development. Over the course of time, genetic mutations often accumulate in cells, leading first to pre-cancerous conditions and ultimately to tumour growth. Using a mathematical ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Regulatory process for organ scaling discovered

A new study has shed light on the process by which fruit flies develop with their body proportions remaining constant. The study, conducted by the research group of Professor Markus Affolter at the Biozentrum of the University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infiltrating cancer's recruitment center

The most common connective tissue cell in animals is the fibroblast, which plays an important role in healing wounds. But Dr. Neta Erez of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine has now demonstrated that fibroblasts ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research carries cautionary warning for future stem cell applications

Research work carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem arouses a cautionary warning in the growing field of the development of stem cells as a means for future treatment of patients through replacement ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New studies explain how cancer cells 'eat us alive'

Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers link protein to tumor growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers working on mice have discovered a protein that is a major target of a gene that, when mutated in humans, causes tumors to develop on nerves associated with hearing, as well as cataracts ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dutch researchers develop smart biomaterial that triggers bone growth

Researchers from University of Twente's MIRA research institute and its spin-off business Progentix Orthobiology BV have developed a biomaterial that promotes the formation of bone tissue. It can be used to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Specific blood-derived cells promote survival in heart attack model

A research team from McGill University (Canada) report a beneficial effect on cardiac function in mouse models when implanted monocytes - a type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system - helped preserve cardiac ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pressure testing tiny cell samples

A collaboration of French and Canadian researchers have found that sucking a portion of a spherical globule of cells into a tiny pipette provides information about the adhesion between cells and the elastic ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Technique triggers rapid regrowth in damaged bone (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to re-grow a broken bone three times more quickly than normal. (Harry Potter fans? Think Skele-gro.) That’s just what researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Paired drugs kill precancerous colon polyps, spare normal tissue

A two-drug combination destroys precancerous colon polyps with no effect on normal tissue, opening a new potential avenue for chemoprevention of colon cancer, a team of scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds link between low oxygen levels in body and cancer-aiding protein

What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with retinoblastoma.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tobacco smoke causes lung inflammation, promotes lung cancer growth

Repeated exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, and one reason is that it steps up inflammation in the lung. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that mice with ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study Finds Treatment With Anabolic Hormone May Enhance Local Bone Regeneration

(PhysOrg.com) -- In research that could open new avenues of investigation in the prevention and treatment of fractures, in bone regeneration and tissue engineering, scientists from Yale School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0