Items tagged with Cells

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Flies Get Fright from False Memories Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 13:54:43 - Ehud Rattner The seemingly complex phenomenon by which fruit flies (Drosophila) learn from bad experiences has been reduced to the actions of a mere 12 neurons... read more

Live Recordings of Cell Communication Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 17:49:22 - Ehud Rattner A new advanced method for nano-scale imaging of vesicle-fusion could add to our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and viral infections... read more

Light-Switched Drug Delivery Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 10:20:25 - Anuradha Menon Targeted drug delivery is a hot topic of research. Scientists around the world are working on different ways to get drugs into specific cells without... read more

Gene Switches On Disease-Fighting Cells Monday, September 14th, 2009 - 19:39:13 - Ehud Rattner The master gene that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'Natural Killer' (NK) immune cells has been identified by scientists, in a... read more

Studies Reveal Leukemia-Initiating Cells Monday, July 27th, 2009 - 14:06:47 - Ehud Rattner Two new studies reveal a way to increase the body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a... read more

Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage Saturday, July 25th, 2009 - 16:22:50 - Anuradha Menon By injecting a protein into mice with heart damage, researchers in Boston have shown that it's possible to cause adult heart-muscle cells to... read more

Stress Makes Your Hair Go Gray Monday, June 15th, 2009 - 19:37:44 - Ehud Rattner Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report in the journal Cell. Researchers have... read more

Early Heart Muscle Cells Identified Sunday, May 31st, 2009 - 16:08:47 - Ehud Rattner Researchers may have isolated embryonic mouse cells that are committed to becoming cardiac myocytes, the type of heart muscle cells that are capable... read more

Determining the Fate of Individual Cells Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 - 16:09:34 - Ehud Rattner It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the... read more

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