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Study reveals that inflammasomes remain active even after cell death

Even after a cell dies, components of the immune system remain active and continue to fuel inflammatory reactions.

23 Jun 2014

NCL collaborates with PeptiMed to evaluate safety and efficacy of nanocomplex materials

PeptiMed announced today that under a Material Transfer Agreement it will collaborate with the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL), located at the Frederick National Laboratory of Cancer Research in Frederick, MD.

23 Jun 2014

SOCIENTIZE project asks citizens to use their skills and time to advance scientific research

Would you like to help researchers understand the workings of our sun, or discover how large crowds of people can work together?

23 Jun 2014

Overlooked DNA shuffling drives deadly paediatric brain tumour

One of the deadliest forms of paediatric brain tumour, Group 3 medulloblastoma, is linked to a variety of large-scale DNA rearrangements which all have the same overall effect on specific genes located on different chromosomes.

23 Jun 2014

Alternative disposal process in optic nerve cells has implications for neurodegenerative diseases

Biologists have long considered cells to function like self-cleaning ovens, chewing up and recycling their own worn out parts as needed.

20 Jun 2014

Researchers adapt mathematical tool to help control malaria and other infectious diseases

A mathematical tool used by the Metropolitan Police and FBI has been adapted by researchers at Queen Mary University of London to help control outbreaks of malaria, and has the potential to target other infectious diseases.

20 Jun 2014

Researchers explore genetic and cellular mechanisms of retinal development

The circuitry of the central nervous system is immensely complex and, as a result, sometimes confounding. When scientists conduct research to unravel the inner workings at a cellular level, they are sometimes surprised by what they find.

20 Jun 2014

UCLA study sheds light on the development of lung cancer

UCLA researchers led by Dr. Brigitte Gomperts have discovered the inner workings of the process thought to be the first stage in the development of lung cancer. Their study explains how factors that regulate the growth of adult stem cells that repair tissue in the lungs can lead to the formation of precancerous lesions.

20 Jun 2014

Research reveals key aspect of protein regulation in cells

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how an important "on" switch is attached to the machinery that cells rely on to adapt thousands of proteins to meet changing conditions.

20 Jun 2014

Researchers explore how neurons establish spatial polarity and direction in tissues, organs

The question of how neurons and their axons establish spatial polarity and direction in tissues and organs is a fundamental question of any organism or biological system.

20 Jun 2014

Researchers develop tissue engineered bone grafts for healing large bone defects

Bone is one of the most frequently transplanted tissues. And the demand is rising. Transplants treat large defects like those caused by trauma, complicated fractures, tumour resection or osteoporosis.

20 Jun 2014

Osteoarthritis may be treated with stem cell mobilization therapy

Researchers in Taiwan have found that peripheral blood stem cells can be "mobilized" by injection of a special preparation of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) into rats that modeled osteoarthritis (OA).

20 Jun 2014

Yap1 oncogene drives recurrence and progression of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer tumors addicted to mutant Kras signaling for their growth and progression have a ready-made substitute to tap if they're ever forced to go cold-turkey on the mutant oncogene, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the journal Cell.

20 Jun 2014

Scientists create bone material from human stem cells to improve patient's welfare

Bone defects, like a damaged femoral head, are usually replaced by metal implants. This has many disadvantages, but now scientists in Germany have created bone material from human stem cells that could bring significant improvement to the patient's welfare.

20 Jun 2014

Leica Microsystems to unveil first LifeSight report at MicroScience Microscopy Congress 2014

Leica Microsystems, one of the world’s leading designers and producers of microscopes and high-tech precision optical systems, will host a pre-registration event at 4pm at Cobden Room 3 on 01 July 2014 at the MicroScience Microscopy Congress 2014 (30 June - 3 July 2014, Manchester, UK) to unveil the first LifeSight report into current and future trends in life science research.

20 Jun 2014

New research reveals gene's role in type 1 diabetes

New research describes details of how a diabetes-related gene functions on a biological pathway that affects the release of insulin. The study authors say that finding drugs that act on that pathway may eventually lead to a new treatment for type 1 diabetes.

20 Jun 2014

Researchers shed new light on how gliomas cells migrate in brain and cause devastating tumors

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have shed new light on how cells called gliomas migrate in the brain and cause devastating tumors.

20 Jun 2014

Men with prostate cancer achieve stronger muscles and remain active through playing football

Men with prostate cancer aged 43‒74 achieve bigger and stronger muscles, improve functional capacity, gain positive social experiences and the desire to remain active through playing football for 12 weeks.

20 Jun 2014

Susceptibility gene for type 1 diabetes regulates self-destruction of cell's energy factory

A team led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a susceptibility gene for type 1 diabetes regulates self-destruction of the cell's energy factory. They report their findings this week in Cell.

20 Jun 2014

Scientists discover major breakthrough in cancer treatment

Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, have developed a new cancer treatment that has proved to be effective in mice. The treatment, which is presented in the prestigious scientific journal PNAS, is based on newly discovered properties of the so-called BET bromodomain inhibitors.

20 Jun 2014

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Study reveals that inflammasomes remain active even after cell death

NCL collaborates with PeptiMed to evaluate safety and efficacy of nanocomplex materials

SOCIENTIZE project asks citizens to use their skills and time to advance scientific research

Overlooked DNA shuffling drives deadly paediatric brain tumour

Alternative disposal process in optic nerve cells has implications for neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers adapt mathematical tool to help control malaria and other infectious diseases

Researchers explore genetic and cellular mechanisms of retinal development

UCLA study sheds light on the development of lung cancer

Research reveals key aspect of protein regulation in cells

Researchers explore how neurons establish spatial polarity and direction in tissues, organs

Researchers develop tissue engineered bone grafts for healing large bone defects

Osteoarthritis may be treated with stem cell mobilization therapy

Yap1 oncogene drives recurrence and progression of pancreatic cancer

Scientists create bone material from human stem cells to improve patient's welfare

Leica Microsystems to unveil first LifeSight report at MicroScience Microscopy Congress 2014

New research reveals gene's role in type 1 diabetes

Researchers shed new light on how gliomas cells migrate in brain and cause devastating tumors

Men with prostate cancer achieve stronger muscles and remain active through playing football

Susceptibility gene for type 1 diabetes regulates self-destruction of cell's energy factory

Scientists discover major breakthrough in cancer treatment

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