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U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on

...gene implicated in the development of cancer cells can be switched on using drugs, report researchers fro...t control growth are turned off. While researchers can use these turned-off genes to identify or monitor cancer, currently no treatments actually target th...

Now, self-healing materials can mimic human skin, healing again and again

...ply system means minor damage to the same location can be healed repeatedly,” said Sottos, who also is a ...te student and lead author of the paper. “While we can pump more healing agent into the network, ‘scar tissue’ builds up in the coating and prevents the he...

Migration alert -- How tumor cells home in on the lymphatic system

...study provides the first evidence that tumor cells can both produce and use the same signaling molecule, and it highlights the significance of the biophysical environment in the vicinity of a tumor, particularly the existence of continuous slow flow in the direction of functional lymphatics. This re...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

...ergy resources engineering. ''But the idea that we can take fossil fuels out of the mix very quickly is u...tential for reductions is significant. Not only can a lot of carbon dioxide be captured, but the Earth's capacity to store it is also vast, he added. ...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...id. “It’s interesting that these major differences can result in the same emergent social properties. It may tell us something about ourselves.” ...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

...egates to form. These beta amyloid "oligomers" can grow into insoluble "fibrils" that cluster around ...l chemical makeup, human anti-oligomer antibodies can distinguish between them. The antibodies recognize a particular shape that proteins assume only when...

Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome

...r gene. Researchers believe that this suicide gene can be itself blocked by a plug of proteins forming on... that race and reaches an energy state in which it can pull together all the material building up in both plugs into a single protein plug. That single plu...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

...o fight off the negative impacts that testosterone can have on an animal’s health. The researchers, K...s costly as previously thought, so long as animals can nutritionally offset the immune detriments of testosterone. They may even experience a net health be...

Researchers reveal structure of protein altered in autism

...ional structure of the normal protein, researchers can now make predictions about how mutations in the ge...e-dimensional structures of proteins in the brain, can yield valuable medical insights.” Taylor and colleagues have been studying the structure and fun...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...her has different patterns at her disposal, so she can ensure a good match between back patterns and othe...y which an extra dose of estradiol from the mother can help to resolve this problem. In one pathway, females increased the amount of estradiol to their ...

Women well informed about breast cancer, yet lacking knowledge about current treatments

...a gap between awareness and information that women can use toward better treatment. “These surv...al Center. “With essential information, patients can work with their physicians to achieve the best possible outcomes in the management of their diagnosi...

Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics

...g desktop software tools into web-based tools that can be shared across the Internet. Sharing analytical software in this way promotes collaboration and cooperation among scientists and between scientists and policy-making agencies. Flemons understands the importance of the interplay between natural...

Progress toward an antitumor vaccine

How can we induce the body to use its own weapon, the immu...e anchors are themselves highly immunogenic, which can suppress the immune response against the true target, the glycoprotein.” This team has now found ...

CT scan reveals ancient long-necked gliding reptile

... mudstone, and only faint impressions of the bones can be seen at the surface. Repeated attempts to remov... scanner. "In some cases, with larger bones, we can see inside the bones," says Ryan. "However, we could not determine the exact morphology of all the ...

Genetic factors are linked to fever following smallpox vaccination

... live virus particles, as in the smallpox vaccine, can sometimes cause reactions that range from fatigue to serious illness. In recent studies testing the safety and potency of stored smallpox vaccine, which uses live vaccinia virus, some individuals developed fevers. The authors of the study, Samu...

Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering

...onomous UAVs for military applications, but now we can apply this cutting-edge technology to agriculture,...ous UAVs maintain a very precise sampling path. We can establish a GPS waypoint in the center of an agricultural field, and the autonomous plane can circle...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...0 to 120 days of parental care until the baby bird can fly. The parents will usually continue to provide...male’s capacity to raise offspring, a quality that can vary with time, may carry more weight with a mate than stellar genes or past breeding success, Manes...

Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?

...chemical diversity will contain new compounds that can be used to point the way to new drugs for serious diseases.” CABI currently uses its fungal collection, along with the expertise of its scientists to offer a range of services to businesses, including fungal identification, sales, preservations, p...

Microbes at work cleaning up the environment

...xic to the bacteria. Sulfate-reducing bacteria can cause heavy metals such as zinc (Zn) to precipitat...o small (typically 2-6 nanometers in diameter) and can redissolve if conditions change. In the case of the mine bacteria, the researchers showed that t...

New findings challenge established views on human genome

...st learn how to read the manual’s language so they can identify every part and understand how the parts w...ss of this effort. No single experimental approach can be used to identify all functional elements in the genome. So, it was necessary to conduct multiple,...

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