News tagged with biological material


Researchers identify promising new drug target for kidney disease

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a regulator protein that plays a crucial role in kidney fibrosis, a condition that leads to kidney failure. Finding this regulator provides a new therapeutic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's most advanced genetic map created

A consortium led by scientists at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School has constructed the world's most detailed genetic map.

Genetics created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Discovery points to new approach to fight dengue virus

Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When timing is everything: Research says beneficial mutations need specific circumstances to win out

When it comes to the sort of beneficial mutations that drive natural selection, there's new evidence that, evolutionarily speaking, timing is everything.

Genetics created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Carolina scientists use virus to deliver genetic material to slow kids' illness

Even if the patients hadn't been as young as 4 months old, the surgery would have been harrowing: six holes bored into the skull, six tiny tubes inserted directly into targeted parts of the brain, then a solution containing ...

Medical research created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cell proliferation is a key factor in degenerative diseases and cancers

(Medical Xpress)—A newly-engineered strain of mice whose dividing cells express a fluorescent protein could open the door to new methods of regulating cell proliferation in humans. Cell proliferation plays ...

Medical research created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newly discovered enzyme implicated in the spreading of cancer

Enzyme hunters at UiO have discovered the function of an enzyme that is important in the spreading of cancer. Cancer researchers now hope to inhibit the enzyme.

Cancer created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do ovaries continue to produce eggs during adulthood?

A compelling new genetic study tracing the origins of immature egg cells, or 'oocytes', from the embryonic period throughout adulthood adds new information to a growing controversy. The notion of a "biological clock" in women ...

Genetics created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New composite material may restore damaged soft tissue

Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new liquid material that in early experiments in rats and humans shows promise in restoring damaged soft tissue relatively safely and durably. The material, a composite ...

Medical research created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inhibiting enzymes in the cell may lead to development and proliferation of cancer cells

Blocking certain enzymes in the cell may prevent cancer cell division and growth, according to new findings from researchers at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The ...

Cancer created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers develop a way to monitor engineered blood vessels as they grow in patients

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nanoparticle technology, researchers from Yale have devised a way to monitor the growth of laboratory-engineered blood vessels after they have been implanted in patients. This advance ...

Medical research created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Live longer with fewer calories

By consuming fewer calories, ageing can be slowed down and the development of age-related diseases such as cancer and type 2 diabetes can be delayed. The earlier calorie intake is reduced, the greater the effect. Researchers ...

Medical research created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

What causes brain cancer? Understanding glioblastoma at the genetic, molecular level

Glioblastoma is the most common and most lethal form of brain tumor in people. Research published in the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design offers a novel way to determine what biological functi ...

Cancer created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Dark genome' is involved in Rett Syndrome

Researchers at the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL led by Manel Esteller, ICREA researcher and professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona, have described alterations in noncoding ...

Genetics created May 02, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research looks at novel ways to combat drug resistance

University of Southampton biological scientists are leading a major research project aimed at making drugs more effective.

Medical research created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0