Digestive process affects anti-cancer activity of tea in gastrointestinal cells April 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Increased consumption of teas rich in catechins is associated with reduced risk of stomach, colon and other gastrointestinal cancers. However, the effects of digestion on the anticancer activity of tea catechins have largely ... | |
Turning back the clock for Schwann cells May 19, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Myelin-making Schwann cells have an ability every aging Hollywood star would envy: they can become young again. According to a study appearing in the May 19 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, David B. Parkinson ... | |
12 new species discovered in Brazil April 29, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. | |
UK's organic cows are cream of the crop May 27, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new study by Newcastle University proves that organic farmers who let their cows graze as nature intended are producing better quality milk. The Nafferton Ecological Farming Group study found that grazing cows on organic ... | |
Tumor suppressor genes speed up and slow down aging in engineered mouse May 30, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an animal model that can test the function of two prominent tumor suppressor genes, p16 and p19, in the aging process. Scientists knew that both these genes were expressed at increased ... | |
From Canada to the Caribbean: Tree leaves control their own temperature June 11, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The temperature inside a healthy, photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than originally believed, according to new research from biologists at the University of Pennsylvania. | |
How to build a plant June 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Dr. Sarah Hake and her colleagues, George Chuck, Hector Candela-Anton, Nathalie Bolduc, Jihyun Moon, Devin O'Connor, China Lunde, and Beth Thompson, have taken advantage of the information from sequenced grass genomes to ... | |
RNA emerges from DNA's shadow July 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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RNA, the transporter of genetic information within the cell, has emerged from the shadow of DNA to become one of the hottest research areas of molecular biology, with implications for many diseases as well as understanding ... | |
Genes that control embryonic stem cell fate identified July 10, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate. The genes may either prod or restrain stem cells from drifting into a kind of limbo, they suspect. The limbo lies between the embryonic ... | |
A Viral Cloaking Device: Biologists show how Human Cytomegalovirus hides from the immune system July 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered how one ... | |
 Research could put penicillin back in battle against antibiotic resistant bugs that kill millions March 12, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Research led by the University of Warwick has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack ... | |
Scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells August 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and ... | |
 Multi-lab collaboration yields first detailed map of nuclear pore complex December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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A cell’s membrane-bound nucleus contains precious contents — its DNA — so it must be very careful about what enters and leaves this important space. To do this, it uses hundreds to thousands of nuclear pores ... | |
 Researchers investigate mass bat deaths February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats. | |
 Research team uses tiny wasp to wipe out major agricultural pest in Tahiti March 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A research team led by Mark Hoddle, a biological control specialist at UC Riverside, has nearly eradicated the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a major agricultural pest, from the island of Tahiti and several other ... | |
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