News tagged with molecular changes

Brain region may hold key to aging

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain of aging": the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists at Albert Einstein ...

Neuroscience May 01, 2013 | 4.8 / 5 (21) | 8 |

BPA's real threat may be after it has metabolized

Bisphenol A or BPA is a synthetic chemical widely used in the making of plastic products ranging from bottles and food can linings to toys and water supply lines. When these plastics degrade, BPA is released ...

Health Oct 04, 2012 | 5 / 5 (9) | 0 |

Scientists find regulator linking exercise to bigger, stronger muscles

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a previously unknown protein in muscles that spurs their growth and increased power following resistance exercise. They suggest that artificially raising the protein's ...

Medical research Dec 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0 |

Scientists find molecular evidence of brain changes in depressed females

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered molecular-level changes in the brains of women with major depressive disorder that link two hypotheses of the biological mechanisms that lead ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Sep 16, 2011 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Scientists identify brain's 'molecular memory switch'

Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal ...

Neuroscience Mar 28, 2013 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2 |

Previously unknown cell interaction is key in immune system attacks

Most of the time, the immune system is the body's protector, warding off invading viruses and bacteria before they can lead to infection and disease. But in autoimmune diseases, the immune system does an about face, turning ...

Medical research Oct 02, 2011 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Study shows gene defect's role in autism-like behavior

Scientists affiliated with the UC Davis MIND Institute have discovered how a defective gene causes brain changes that lead to the atypical social behavior characteristic of autism. The research offers a potential target for ...

Autism spectrum disorders Aug 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 3 |

Tension on gut muscles induces cell invasion in zebrafish intestine, mimicking cancer metastasis

The stiffness of breast tissue is increasingly recognized as an important factor explaining the onset of breast cancer. Stiffening induces molecular changes that promote cancerous behavior in cells. Bioengineering ...

Cancer Sep 07, 2012 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Autism linked to increased genetic change in regions of genome instability

(Medical Xpress)—Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called "hotspots," according to a research discovery to be published ...

Autism spectrum disorders Apr 03, 2013 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Researchers develop compound to block signaling of cancer-causing protein

Researchers at New York University's Department of Chemistry and NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a compound that blocks signaling from a protein implicated in many types of cancer. The compound is described in the ...

Cancer Jul 17, 2011 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Channeling into cell control

A research team from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, Japan, has visualized and accurately modeled the molecular changes that open and close the internal membrane channels for calcium ions within ...

Medical research Jan 20, 2012 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Study reveals origins of esophageal cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified the critical early cellular and molecular events that give rise to a type of esophageal cancer called esophageal ...

Cancer Jan 17, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Lymphoma therapy could deliver a double punch

B cell lymphomas are a group of cancers of that originate in lymphoid tissue from B cells, the specialized immune cell type that produces antibodies. The development of B cell lymphoma is associated with several known genetic ...

Cancer Apr 30, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Gene link to multiple sclerosis

(Medical Xpress) -- The biological role of a gene variant implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been determined by researchers at Oxford University.

Genetics Jul 11, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Gene regulatory protein is reduced in bipolar disorder

Low levels of a brain protein that regulates gene expression may play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder, a complex and sometimes disabling psychiatric disease. As reported in the latest issue of Bipolar Disorders, the jo ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 25, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

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