News tagged with sugar molecules
Sexual selection by sugar molecule helped determine human origins
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have ...
Medical research
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Revealed: How sticky egg captures sperm
Researchers have uncovered exactly how a human egg captures an incoming sperm to begin the fertilisation process, in a new study published this week in the journal Science.
Medical research
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Researchers use sugar to halt esophageal cancer in its tracks
Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett's dysplasia, making it much easier to ...
Cancer
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Tuberculosis bacterium's outer cell wall disarms the body's defense to remain infectious
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis has a unique molecule on its outer cell surface that blocks a key part of the body's defense. New research suggests this represents a novel mechanism in the microbe's evolving efforts ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 03, 2011 |
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A further step towards preventing diabetes
Having identified the important role in controlling insulin secretion played by the protein Cx36, a team of scientists at the University of Geneva have perfected an innovative method which enables testing the effectiveness ...
Diabetes
Jul 26, 2012 |
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Enzyme in saliva helps regulate blood glucose
Scientists from the Monell Center report that blood glucose levels following starch ingestion are influenced by genetically-determined differences in salivary amylase, an enzyme that breaks down dietary starches. Specifically, ...
Medical research
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Researchers discover new HIV vaccine-related tool
(Medical Xpress) -- A new discovery involving two Simon Fraser University scientists could lead to a little known and benign bacterium becoming a vital new tool in the development of a vaccine against human ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 23, 2012 |
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First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset
Geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD, has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at the Stanford University School of Medicine pored over his body's most intimate secrets: the sequence of his DNA, the ...
Genetics
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Engineered pancreatic tissues could lead to better transplants for diabetics
Technion researchers have built pancreatic tissue with insulin-secreting cells, surrounded by a three-dimensional network of blood vessels. The engineered tissue could pave the way for improved tissue transplants to treat ...
Diabetes
Aug 15, 2012 |
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Parasitic worms may help treat diseases associated with obesity
(Medical Xpress)—On the list of undesirable medical conditions, a parasitic worm infection surely ranks fairly high. Although modern pharmaceuticals have made them less of a threat in some areas, these ...
Medical research
Jan 08, 2013 |
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Study shows how immune cells navigate through the skin by sensing graded patterns of immobilized directional cues
A research paper by the group of Michael Sixt, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), published today in Science, provides new insights into how immune cells ...
Medical research
Jan 17, 2013 |
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Cord blood effective alternative to matched donor stem cells for kids with rare disorder
Transplants of blood-forming stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be an effective alternative to transplants of matched donor bone marrow stem cells to treat children with a rare, debilitating disease known as Hurler's ...
Medical research
Mar 14, 2013 |
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A cautionary tale on genome-sequencing diagnostics for rare diseases
Children born with rare, inherited conditions known as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, or CDG, have mutations in one of the many enzymes the body uses to decorate its proteins and cells with sugars. Properly diagnosing ...
Genetics
May 10, 2013 |
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