News tagged with lab cultures

Rare, lethal childhood disease tracked to failure to degrade nerve cells' filaments

For the first time, a defective protein that plays a specific role in degrading intermediate filaments (IF), one of three classes of filaments that form the structure of nerve cells, has been discovered by an international ...

Medical research Dec 17, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Common bacteria cause some colon tumors by altering peroxide-producing gene

Working with lab cultures and mice, Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a strain of the common gut pathogen Bacteroides fragilis causes colon inflammation and increases activity of a gene called spermine oxidase (SMO) ...

Cancer Nov 05, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |