News articles tagged with 'cytoplasm'
Loss of key protein boosts neurone loss in ALS
— 5 Mar 2011 14:00 | HealthAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterised by the progressive deterioration of brain…
Process leading to protein diversity in cells important for proper neurone firing
— 19 Nov 2010 11:20 | HealthCells have their own version of the cut-and-paste editing function called splicing. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have documented a novel form of…
Immune cells deploy traps to catch and kill pathogens
— 26 Oct 2010 13:20 | HealthA new study reveals that two enzymes help immune cells deploy pathogen-killing traps by unravelling and using the chromatin (DNA and its associated proteins) contained in the cells'…
Nature study shows how molecules escape from the nucleus
— 15 Sep 2010 17:45 | BiologyBy constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have…
Regulation of cell proliferation is dependent on nucleocytoplasmic trafficking
— 24 Aug 2010 09:03 | HealthResearchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that the Opioid Growth Factor (OGF, [Met5]-enkephalin) and its receptor,…
Researchers discover second protective role for tumour-suppressor
— 22 Feb 2010 14:38 | HealthATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to oxidative damage outside of…
Chemical tags likely to affect metabolism, cancer development
— 22 Feb 2010 14:08 | HealthIt is not unusual to hear people blame their metabolism after gaining a few pounds. But changes in metabolism - the process that shapes how our bodies turn food into energy - can have…
Using gold nanoparticles to hit cancer where it hurts
— 17 Feb 2010 13:38 | HealthTaking gold nanoparticles to the cancer cell and hitting them with a laser has been shown to be a promising tool in fighting cancer, but what about cancers that occur in places where…
Gladstone scientists identify role of key protein in ALS and frontotemporal dementia
— 13 Jan 2010 14:10 | HealthScientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified the reason a key protein plays a major role in two neurodegenerative diseases. In the current edition…
Caltech researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development
— 18 Dec 2009 14:36 | BiologyFor decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein - a transcription factor - that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster,…