News tagged with cell cultures

Genetic mutation linked with typical form of migraine

A research team led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a genetic mutation that is strongly associated with a typical form of migraine.

Genetics created May 01, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Blocking 'scaffold' protein inhibits cancer growth, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised an entirely novel way to block biological signaling pathways that, when overactive, lead to many types of cancers. They've done so ...

Cancer created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experimental molecular therapy crosses blood-brain barrier to treat neurological disease

Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological lysosomal storage disease in mice.

Medical research created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gold nanoparticles show new way to kill lymphoma without chemotherapy

How do you annihilate lymphoma without using any drugs? Starve it to death by depriving it of what appears to be a favorite food: HDL cholesterol.

Cancer created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Understanding cell organization to tackle cancer

Scientists at The University of Manchester have identified how cells know which way up they need to be. The discovery could help in the fight against cancer because in the early stages of the disease the cells become disorganised.

Cancer created Dec 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study gives insight into subtle genomic differences among our own cells

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have demonstrated, in a study conducted jointly with researchers at Yale University, that induced-pluripotent stem cells—the embryonic-stem-cell lookalikes whose discovery ...

Medical research created Nov 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers report potential new treatment to stop Alzheimer's disease

Last March, researchers at UCLA reported the development of a molecular compound called CLR01 that prevented toxic proteins associated with Parkinson's disease from binding together and killing the brain's neurons.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Extra chromosome 21 removed from Down syndrome cell line

(Medical Xpress)—University of Washington scientists have succeeded in removing the extra copy of chromosome 21 in cell cultures derived from a person with Down syndrome, a condition in which the body's ...

Medical research created Nov 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Lung-on-a-chip' sets stage for next wave of research to replace animal testing

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported today in the journal Science Tr ...

Medical research created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery sheds light on Alzheimer's mystery

(Medical Xpress)—In 1906, when Alois Alzheimer discovered the neurodegenerative disease that would later be named for him, he saw amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles inside the brain. Several decades later, ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tumor microenvironment helps skin cancer cells resist drug treatment

One of cancer's most frightening characteristics is its ability to return after treatment. In the case of many forms of cancer, including the skin cancer known as melanoma, tailored drugs can eradicate cancer cells in the ...

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Entry point for hepatitis C infection identified

A molecule embedded in the membrane of human liver cells that aids in cholesterol absorption also allows the entry of hepatitis C virus, the first step in hepatitis C infection, according to research at the University of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research confirms novel strategy in fight against infectious diseases

New research shows that infectious disease-fighting drugs could be designed to block a pathogen's entry into cells rather than to kill the bug itself.

Medical research created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will my breast cancer spread? Discovery may predict probability of metastasis

Researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered a new way to model human breast cancer that could lead to new tools for predicting which breast cancers will spread and new ways to ...

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Beneficial bacteria help repair intestinal injury by inducing reactive oxygen species

(Medical Xpress) -- The gut may need bacteria to provide a little bit of oxidative stress to stay healthy, new research suggests. Probiotic bacteria promote healing of the intestinal lining in mice by inducing ...

Medical research created May 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell culture

Cell culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions. In practice the term "cell culture" has come to refer to the culturing of cells derived from multicellular eukaryotes, especially animal cells. The historical development and methods of cell culture are closely interrelated to those of tissue culture and organ culture.

Animal cell culture became a common laboratory technique in the mid-1900s, but the concept of maintaining live cell lines separated from their original tissue source was discovered in the 19th century.

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