A new study has revealed that genetic switches (or enhancers) and the molecules that activate these switches (transcription factors) can be used to trace a cell's development history.
Scientists in th...
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Scientists have found that monocytes are extremely sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are aggressive forms of oxygen generated during states of oxidative stress.
Scientists at the Unive...
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JPK Instruments announce exciting new quantitative imaging capabilities for the recently launched NanoWizard®3 AFM system. QI™ is the new quantitative imaging mode from JPK. It has been developed to m...
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Lycopene, a nutrient found in cooked tomatoes, has been found to slow the growth of prostate cancer cells, and has even been found to kill it in some cases.
The nutrient is widely known for giving tom...
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A novel 'scaffold-free' 3-D system has been used to determine the role of Pannexin1 in binding cells, a process that is lost in cancer.
The researchers, from Brown University, found that protein Panne...
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The lung clearance index (LCI) has been found to be a sensitive and non-invasive marker of early lung disease by researchers studying early cystic fibrosis (CF) in Australia.
The findings, published...
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Engineered around a new second-generation sCMOS detector, the ORCA-Flash4.0 is the first camera that challenges the performance of all EM-CCD, CCD and firstgeneration sCMOS cameras for every fluoresce...
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JPK Instruments reports on a keynote paper in Nano Letters where Dr Nikolai Severin and his co-workers from the group of Professor Jürgen P. Rabe have applied JPK's NanoWizard®II Ultra system to impro...
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Flavonoid luteolin has been found to inhibit the activity of cell signalling pathways (Insulin-like growth IGF and Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases PI3K) that is known to be a mechanism for the uncontro...
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A link has been found between exposure to phthalates and obesity in young children, which included increased BMI and waist circumference.
The research, conducted by the Children's Environmental Health...
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The mechanism acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells use to evade chemotherapy has been identified by researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre, who have also detailed how to plug the 'escap...
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Combining trastuzumab and lapatinib in pre-op has been found to improve the outcome of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
The results, which were detailed by an international research team an...
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A team of Italian researchers have identified a 'genetic accelerator' called HS1.2, which enhances the production of the pathological antibodies that attack the patient's body rather than defend it.
T...
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The gene that tells cells to develop multiple cilia has been identified by researchers in San Diego, which could help scientists effectively replace damaged tissue.
The development, made by researcher...
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Cancer cells that are grown on two-dimensional plastic petri dish cultures lack the three-dimensional structures required to successfully replicate the tissue structure seen in human cancer, it has be...
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