Nailing Regeneration
Stem cells at the base of finger and toenails act as coordinating centers to orchestrate communication between the nail, bone, and nerve tissues necessary to promote mouse fingertip regeneration after amputation, according to new research published today (June 13) in Nature. Researchers found that nail stem cells use a signaling pathway important for embryonic limb […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 13, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
Vaginal Birth (Childbirth)
This wonderful 3D medical animation of a baby’s birth shows a time lapse view of labor and delivery during normal vaginal birth in a simplified form with only the mother’s skeletal structures and the baby in the uterus. Also shown in detail is dilatation (dilation or dilating) and effacement (thinning) of the cervix during childbirth […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 11, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
Molecular discovery puts cancer treatment in a new perspective
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the National Institutes of Health have obtained ground-breaking new knowledge about proteases – important enzymes which, among other things, play a role in the development of cancer cells. The findings may be significant for the development of cancer drugs, and have just been published in Journal of Biological […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 11, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
Nerve growth stimulates prostate cancer
The growth of new nerves in and around prostate cancers spurs tumours to grow and invade other tissues, studies in mice have shown.The results, published today in Science, could steer researchers towards novel approaches to treating cancer. Although it is not yet clear whether the mechanism occurs in humans — or in cancers affecting other […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 11, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
Gene therapy using lentivirus promising in three youngsters
Two Houston researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital were part of an international team that developed a new gene therapy approach to treatment of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a fatal inherited form of immunodeficiency. The new research, led by researchers at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy was […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 11, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
Researchers Perform DNA Computation in Living Cells
Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as well as new methods of disease detection and treatment. Logic gates are the means by which computers “compute,” as sets of them are combined in […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - July 10, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
One million people who have non-body odour gene still use deodorant
Researchers have found that two per cent of the population have a genetic variant that means they do not suffer from under arm body odour yet more three quarters of them continue to use scents. The ‘cultural norm’ in Britain is to use deodorant every day whether body odour is a problem or not, the […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - June 30, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs
