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Lives of a cell
04-25-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Kathy Vandiver, director of community outreach and education programs for MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences takes students from the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tenn., through the new cell exhibit at the MIT Museum.
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- Team of scientists develops non-invasive method to track nerve-cell development in live human brain
11-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
A team of scientists including researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified and validated the first biomarker that permits neural stem and progenitor cells to be tracked, non-invasively, in the brains of living human subjects. This important advance could lead to significantly better diagnosis and monitoring of brain tumors and a range of serious neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Imaging techniques permit scientists to follow a day -- or four -- in the life of a cell
01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Understanding how live cells function is invaluable for molecular and cellular biologists, and advanced techniques to visualize cells in action are of great importance. The current issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols addresses this issue with two freely accessible protocols: one for inserting "reporter" proteins into cells to monitor what's going on inside, and another for maintaining the cells under a microscope for long-term observation.
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- New use for stem cells found in war on terrorism
09-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries. His most recent discovery, which produces billions of neural cells from a few stem cells, could now aid in national security. In collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory, Stice hopes to use his recently developed neural cell kits to detect chemical threats.
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- Researchers Find Smallest Cellular Genome
10-14-2006 · ScienceDaily
The smallest collection of genes ever found for a cellular organism comes from tiny symbiotic bacteria that live inside special cells inside a small insect. Just 182 genes, the 160-kilobase genome could revise ideas about what's needed for a cell to work. The finding also provides new insight into bacterial evolution.
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- Stem cells get a grip
12-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
At the American Society for Cell Biology's 2006 conference, scientists will describe how live cell imaging has revealed the very close relationship of hematopoietic stem cells and osteoblasts in the stem cell niche.
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- LCT reports major step forward for islet transplantation in diabetes patient
03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Living Cell Technologies has published evidence outlining the survival and identification of live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient with diabetes 10 years after he received a micro-encapuslated pig islet cell transplant. The paper outlines how LCT has demonstrated the long-term safety, viability and function of its encapsulated porcine islets in a human patient over an extended period of time, without the use of immunosuppression.
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- Adult male chimpanzees don't stray far from the home
12-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
When it comes to choosing a place to live, male chimpanzees in the wild don’t stray far from home, according to a new report in the Dec. 27 Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.
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- From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
12-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
In the world of microbes, as in politics, some groups just can't seem to shake the label ''extremist.'' So it is with archaea, bacteria-like microorganisms whose unique genetics and chemical structure separate them from all other living things.For years, biologists have pigeonholed archaea as extremophiles: creatures that live in extreme conditions. But in the last year, scientists have begun to focus on archaeal species that inhabit more mundane environments, including soils and seawater.
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- MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells
10-16-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
For the first time, researchers at MIT can see every vibration of a cell membrane, using a technique that could one day allow scientists to create three-dimensional images of the inner workings of living cells.
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- Good for the goose, not so great for the gander
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
A provocative new model proposed by USC molecular biologist John Tower may help answer an enduring scientific question: Why do women tend to live longer than men? The model suggests how, on a genetic level, the evolution of aging and sex may be inextricably linked. It concludes that sexual differentiation processes may exact a high biological cost -- reduced function of the cell’s mitochondria and shorter life span in males.
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