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Will Cell Therapy Become a 'Third Pillar' of Medicine?
April 3, 2013 Treating patients with cells may one day become as common as it is now to treat the sick with drugs made from engineered proteins, antibodies or smaller chemicals, according to UC San Francisco ... > full story -
New System to Study Trigger of Cell Death in Nervous System Developed
April 3, 2013 Researchers have developed a new model system to study a receptor protein that controls cell death in both humans and fruit ... > full story -
Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Production Could Revolutionize Alternative Energy Market
April 3, 2013 Researchers have discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the ... > full story -
Autism Linked to Increased Genetic Change in Regions of Genome Instability
April 3, 2013 Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called "hotspots," according to a new research discovery. The research has ... > full story -
New Protocol to Ready Clinical Applications of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
April 3, 2013 Scientists have developed a new way to generate induced pluripotent stem cell lines from human fibroblasts, acquired from both healthy and diseased donors. This cell-sorting method consistently ... > full story -
Cisplatin-Resistant Cancer Cells Sensitive to Experimental Anticancer Drugs Called PARP Inhibitors
April 3, 2013 Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a ... > full story -
Can Synthetic Biology Save Wildlife? From Re-Creating Extinct Species to the Risk of Genetically Modified Super-Species
April 2, 2013 What effects will the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology have on the conservation of nature? The ecological and ethical challenges stemming from this question will require a new and ... > full story -
White Blood Cell Enzyme Contributes to Inflammation and Obesity
April 2, 2013 Researchers have discovered that an imbalance between the enzyme neutrophil elastase and its inhibitor, ±1-antitrypsin, causes inflammation, obesity, insulin resistance, and fatty liver ... > full story -
Landmark Study Describes Prostate Cancer Metastasis Switch
April 2, 2013 SPDEF acts as a switch, regulating production of E-Cadherin, the loss of which is a prerequisite of metastasis in many ... > full story -
3-D Scaffolds a New Tool to Fight Cancer
April 2, 2013 Porous polymer scaffolds fabricated to support the growth of biological tissue for implantation may hold the potential to greatly accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics. Researchers report ... > full story
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