News tagged with cellular life


Large animal models of Huntington's disease offer new and promising research options

Scientific progress in Huntington's disease (HD) relies upon the availability of appropriate animal models that enable insights into the disease's genetics and/or pathophysiology. Large animal models, such as domesticated ...

Neuroscience created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shines light on how stress circuits learn

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including ...

Neuroscience created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study discovers first real indicator of longevity in mammals

A team of researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by CNIO Director MarĂ­a Blasco, has demonstrated in a pioneering study on mammals that longevity is defined at a molecular level by the ...

Medical research created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Demystifying the immortality of cancer cells

(Medical Xpress) -- In cancer cells, normal mechanisms governing the cellular life cycle have gone haywire. Cancer cells continue to divide indefinitely, without ever dying off, thus creating rapidly growing ...

Cancer created Jul 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Newly found protein helps cells build tissues

As they work together to form body parts, cells in developing organisms communicate like workers at a construction site. The discovery of a new signaling molecule in flies by Brown University biologists not only helps explain ...

Medical research created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Collaboration rapidly connects fly gene discovery to human disease

A collaborative study by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, and published March 20 in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, has discovered that m ...

Genetics created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast