Items tagged with cell

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Reversing the Conventional DNA Wisdom Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 12:33:49 - Anuradha Menon The copying of DNA's master instructions into messenger molecules of RNA, a process known as DNA transcription, has always been thought to be a... read more

How Childhood Leukemia Fights Back Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 - 15:01:11 - Ehud Rattner What makes a cancer come back? No one really knows, but for a long time researchers have thought that certain DNA changes in cancer cells may protect... read more

Boosting the Power of Solar Cells Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 14:21:02 - Anuradha Menon New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team... read more

Nokia to Stop Japanese Production Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 10:44:15 - Anuradha Menon Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, plans to stop making phones for the Japan market, one of the largest in the world. The Finnish phone... read more

New Source Of Insulin-Producing Cells Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 18:51:45 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from... read more

A Cure for AIDS? Not Quite Sunday, November 16th, 2008 - 18:35:56 - Ehud Rattner Yet another rash of stories touting a putative HIV/AIDS cure has gripped the media. This one involves a man with both leukemia and HIV, who received... read more

Hands-on Review: Sony Xperia X1 Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 10:17:36 - Anuradha Menon It's not an iPhone, and for many that's half the appeal: Sony's $800 (unlocked) Xperia X1 is the most expensive mainstream cell phone on the market... read more

Umbilical Cord May Help Build Heart Valves Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon Children with heart defects may someday receive perfectly-matched new heart valves built using stem cells from their umbilical cord blood, according... read more

Tissue Engineering to Mend Broken Hearts Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 10:18:14 - Anuradha Menon Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. The idea is that living heart cells or stem... read more

Scientists Identify Memory Making Machinery Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 16:11:06 - Anuradha Menon A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the brain can modify one microscopic connection, or synapse, at a time in a brain cell and not affect the... read more

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