The androgen receptor in human cells inhibits fat accumulation, but its activity can be sabotaged by glucocorticoids, steroids that regulate fat deposition and are known drivers of obesity and insulin resistance, said researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 20, 2012
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A new semi-automated tool called pathwalking makes it possible to generate a "first draft" model of a protein fold taken from near-atomic resolution images of between three and six angstroms (Å), said researchers at ...
Biochemistry
Mar 6, 2012
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Aging takes its toll on sex appeal and now an international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan find that in fruit flies, at least, it even diminishes the come-hither effect ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2012
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The many factors that contribute to how cells communicate and function at the most basic level are still not fully understood, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2012
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Ordinarily, embryonic stem cells exist only a day or two as they begin the formation of the embryo itself. Then they are gone.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2011
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The ability to identify self and non-self enables cells in more sophisticated animals to ward off invading infections, but it is critical to even simpler organisms such as the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2011
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The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 26, 2011
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All fat cells are not the same – a fact that has implications in the understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2011
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Ronin, crucial to the self-renewal of embryonic stem cells, and a co-regulator called Hcf-1, binds to a small strand of DNA called a hyperconserved enhancer element to control a gene "program" that stimulates growth of the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 25, 2010
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Members of a population of identical cells often "choose" different fates, even though they exist in identical conditions.
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2010
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