February 10, 2010 | Posted by Saleem
Scientists say they’ve developed a new and easier way to create what’s known as pluripotent stem cells – cells that can develop into one of many cell types for use in regenerative medicine.
Categories: Health & Medicine | 
Tags: assistant professor, cardiac cells, Cardiovascular, cardiovascular institute, cell samples, embryonic stem cells, heart disease, heart study, human diseases, joseph wu, laboratory dish, medicine news, nature methods, pluripotent stem cells, release feb, scientists, skin biopsy, stanford medicine, stanford news, stanford university school, stanford university school of medicine, stem cell biology, stem cell research, stem cells, stem cells taken from | 
No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it’s way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the workings of live cells, particularly in the way they employ iron-sulfur clusters.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: anemia, assistant professor, atoms, Biochemistry, biochemistry and cell biology, clusters, Discovered, Earth, flu, Fluorescent, fragments, friedreich s ataxia, good health, green fluorescent protein, heart disease, human protein, monomers, myopathy, mysteries, oxygen, proteins, researcher, rice university, scientists, SEM, sideroblastic anemia, sinc, test tubes, vitro | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
STANFORD, Calif. — Like a child awaiting the arrival of Christmas, embryonic stem cells exist in a state of permanent anticipation. They must balance the ability to quickly become more specialized cell types with the cellular chaos that could occur should they act too early (stop shaking those presents, kids!). Researchers at the Stanford University [...]
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: act one, assistant professor, balancing act, critical component, dec 24, developmental biology, differentiation, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, hot topic, mouse embryonic stem cells, regulatory proteins, relevant genes, school of medicine, stanford university school, stanford university school of medicine, stem cell research, systems biology, tiny space | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
// < ![CDATA[
if (self != top){ if (document.images) top.location.replace(window.location.href);
else top.location.href=window.location.href;}
// ]]>The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief – just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: assistant professor, behavioral tests, belief, biological psychiatry, cdata, center scientists, cocaine, document images, dr jeffrey, dr mario, empty stomach, empty wallet, ghrelin, grocery store aisles, hormones, hunger, internal medicine, mice, premise, prior research, rewarding aspects, southwestern medical center, ut southwestern | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief – just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: assistant professor, belief, biological psychiatry, brain, center scientists, cocaine, CTS, dr jeffrey, empty stomach, empty wallet, ghrelin, grocery store aisles, hunger, internal medicine, mice, premise, prior research, researcher, rewarding aspects, southwestern medical center, ut southwestern | No Comments »
December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
An investigation by the University of Kansas’ Adrian Melott and colleagues reveals a promising new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth and gauging their frequency
LAWRENCE, Kan. — It’s the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth’s atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave [...]
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: adjunct associate professor, adrian melott, american geophysical union, assistant professor, atmospheric ammonia, brian thomas, central siberia, comet impacts, comet strikes, craters, CTS, disaster epic, Earth, high nitrate, hou, ice cores, impact events, nitrate levels, nitrates, part, Physics, process, research, scientists, shock wave, splitting the sky, stem, tunguska event, University, university of kansas, washburn university | No Comments »
December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
Cells are not static. They can transform themselves over time — but change can have dangerous implications. Benign cells, for example, can suddenly change into cancerous ones.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: Alexander Wilcox, alpha cells, assistant professor, Basil O'Connor, Biochemistry, biology cell, brown university, dangerous implications, Dimes, Discovered, egg, expression, functioning, genes, hou, Jeffrey Laney, laney, lid, molecular biology, molecule, national institutes of health, organism, part, postdoctoral, process, regulatory protein, research, Saccharomyces, saccharomyces cerevisae, scientists, sperm, state details, stem, stem cells, transformation, transitions, yeast | No Comments »