Resistance and endurance exercises affect the body very differently. These differences suggest that adapting to exercise involves many processes, but scientists have observed that one gene in particular, peroxisome proliferator-activated ...
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Preeclampsia, when a pregnant woman develops high blood pressure and protein in the urine, is one of the most common medical complications of pregnancy, and the consequences for both mother and baby can be devastating. The ...
Sep 24, 2015
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The term "orphan receptor" is used for receptor proteins on the cell surface whose matching binding partner has not yet been identified. The binding partners, usually growth factors, activate the receptor, thus transmitting ...
Sep 10, 2015
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If you have diabetes and cancer, here's some hope. In a new research report appearing in the September 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists reveal a newly discovered tissue- and organ-specific mechanism that regulates ...
Sep 1, 2015
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An international team of researchers, including scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), has shed new light on how the circulatory system and blood vessels are formed in the embryo. The discovery lays the ...
Aug 25, 2015
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A team of researchers in South Korea has successfully transplanted mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) derived from human amniotic membranes of the placenta (AMSCs) into laboratory mice modeled with oxygen-induced retinopathy ...
Aug 19, 2015
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Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same ...
Aug 13, 2015
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Scientists have identified a pathway that leads to the formation of atypical blood vessels that can cause blindness in people with age-related macular degeneration.
Aug 11, 2015
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New methods for modifying the genome are currently widely discussed: Using CRISPR/Cas for instance, scientists can remove parts of the genetic code of a gene, thereby knocking it out. Furthermore, there are ways to inhibit ...
Jul 22, 2015
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Rice University researchers have built a simulation to show how cancerous tumors manipulate blood-vessel growth for their own benefit.
Jul 8, 2015
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