Medical research
Two drugs reverse a key pancreatic cancer step in the lab
Pancreatic cancer often lurks as a silent disease. With no known symptoms, it can progress undetected and spread to other organs.
Oct 19, 2022
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News tagged with animal cells
Neuroscience
An animal-free method of creating human brain cells for research
A University of Exeter graduate has discovered a new, animal-free method through which neuroscientists can produce human neuron-like cells to study brain development.
Oct 19, 2022
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Medical research
Researchers uncover how breast cancer cells become resistant to therapy
About one-fourth of recurrent estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers lose ER expression, which renders them resistant to endocrine therapy and able to grow uncontrolled. A team of researchers at Baylor College of ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Genetics
Neurodegeneration can be studied long before symptoms arise
Many changes take place in the brain long before symptoms appear. This has been shown in mice in two studies of prion diseases in which the brain gradually deteriorates. The results suggest that changes can be studied extremely ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers working to uncover consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure
A team of Western researchers is working to improve our understanding of how exposure to cannabis during pregnancy may impact the developing brain of the fetus.
Oct 6, 2022
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Neuroscience
Microscopic 'nano-shuttles' may help drive degeneration of brain cells, research suggests
Tiny "nano-shuttles" transport a damaging cargo around the brain where it goes on to play a role in the degeneration of cells, a study has suggested.
Oct 3, 2022
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Medical research
The unexpected cells helping to shape young brains
When the brain first wires itself up in early development, it creates more connections than it actually needs. Some of these connections, or synapses, will transmit critical signals as young animals begin to sense their surroundings. ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Cardiology
Novel technique creates intricate, life-like blood vessels for heart disease research
Artificial 3D blood vessels that have the strength, structure and complex cellular make-up of real blood vessels have been developed by Singapore and QUT scientists for research into many diseases.
Sep 27, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
A window into the changing tumor microenvironment
Researchers led by Ludwig Lausanne's Anoek Zomer, Davide Croci and Johanna Joyce described in a June publication in iScience their development of a multimodal imaging platform to explore, over extended periods, the changing ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Medical research
When macrophage digestion goes wrong
The exchange of gases between the air we breathe and our blood takes place via alveoli—tiny air sacs in our lungs. For this process to run smoothly, the epithelial cells of the alveoli produce a substance called "surfactant" ...
Sep 16, 2022
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