News articles tagged with 'cellular'
Nitrate improves mitochondrial function
— 2 Feb 2011 17:19 | HealthThe spinach-eating cartoon character Popeye has much to teach us, new research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The muscles' cellular power plants -…
Georgia Tech researchers design system to trace call paths across multiple networks
— 6 Oct 2010 06:14 | TechnologyPhishing scams are making the leap from email to the world's voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to tag fraudulent calls…
Hepatitis C virus faces new weapon from Florida State scientists
— 30 Sep 2010 12:41 | HealthIn recent human trials for a promising new class of drug designed to target the hepatitis C virus (HCV) without shutting down the immune system, some of the HCV strains being treated…
Cell signalling classification system gives researchers new tool
— 3 Jul 2010 09:00 | BiologyUsing ever-growing genome data, scientists with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are tracing the evolution of the bacterial…
Experimental nonsteroidal treatment of asthma shows promise
— 2 Jul 2010 11:32 | HealthA new nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory therapy made from a human protein significantly decreases disease signs of asthma in mice, opening the possibility of a new asthma therapy for…
Crayfish brain may offer rare insight into human decision making
— 16 Jun 2010 13:08 | BiologyCrayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit calculations, finds a University of Maryland study, opening the door to a new line of research that may help unravel the cellular brain…
Childhood adversity may promote cellular ageing
— 17 Mar 2010 12:02 | HealthChildren who suffer physical or emotional abuse could be faced with accelerated cellular ageing as adults, according to new research published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry…
The role of sleep in brain development
— 22 Feb 2010 14:41 | HealthMarcos Frank, PhD, associate professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will present information on early brain development and the importance of…
Enhancing arrest of cell growth to treat cancer in mice
— 9 Feb 2010 13:58 | HealthA team of researchers, led by Pier Paolo Pandolfi, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell…
Natural compound blocks hepatitis C infection
— 6 Jan 2010 12:41 | HealthResearchers have identified two cellular proteins that are important factors in hepatitis C virus infection, a finding that may result in the approval of new and less toxic treatments…