News tagged with vessel cells

Want more efficient muscles? Eat your spinach

(PhysOrg.com) -- After taking a small dose of inorganic nitrate for three days, healthy people consume less oxygen while riding an exercise bike. A new study in the February issue of Cell Metabolism traces ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Chili peppers come with blood pressure benefits

For those with high blood pressure, chili peppers might be just what the doctor ordered, according to a study reported in the August issue of Cell Metabolism. While the active ingredient that gives the peppers their heat - ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How injured nerves grow themselves back

Unlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs to the central nervous system have an astonishing ability to regenerate themselves after injury. Now, a new report in the October 1st ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers create drug to keep tumor growth switched off

A novel -- and rapid -- anti-cancer drug development strategy has resulted in a new drug that stops kidney and pancreatic tumors from growing in mice. Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop synthetic platelets

Synthetic platelets have been developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Their findings are ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have created a device that mimics a living, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Oil droplets can navigate complex maze (w/ Video)

Call them oil droplets with a brain or even "chemo-rats." Scientists in Illinois have developed a way to make simple oil droplets "smart" enough to navigate through a complex maze almost like a trained lab ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers seek to put the squeeze on cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer researchers have been studying angiogenesis — the growth of new blood vessels — since the early 1970s, when Judah Folkman first theorized that tumors could be destroyed by cutting off ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find gas pedal -- and brake -- for uncontrolled cell growth

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new way to regulate the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels, a major problem in a broad range of diseases and conditions.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer drug effectiveness substantially advanced

Researchers have shown that a peptide (a chain of amino acids) called iRGD helps co-administered drugs penetrate deeply into tumor tissue. The peptide has been shown to substantially increase treatment efficacy against human ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Molecular imaging opens up a vast new world for neuroscience

Molecular imaging allows molecules in a living organism to be visualized, and provides a means of observing the distribution and behavior of molecules. One of the most exciting applications of this technology ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New hybrid 'NOSH aspirin' as possible anti-cancer drug

Scientists have combined two new "designer" forms of aspirin into a hybrid substance that appears more effective than either of its forebears in controlling the growth of several forms of cancer in laboratory ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

'Shoot-'em-up' video game increases teenagers' science knowledge

While navigating the microscopic world of immune system proteins and cells to save a patient suffering from a raging bacterial infection, young teenage players of the "Immune Attack" video game measurably improved their understanding ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

New 'nano-drug' hits brain-tumor target found in 2001

Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With further ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover root cause of blood vessel damage in diabetes

A key mechanism that appears to contribute to blood vessel damage in people with diabetes has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast