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Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair

...dimensional product. Also, since the scaffold is a woven material, there are tiny spaces where cartilage cells can nestle and grow. ...

Statin plus cancer drug deliver combo punch to brain cancer cells

..."Our experiments suggest that hedgehog's action is woven together with Bcl-2, best known for its role in causing B-cell lymphomas," he says. "Cancer cells thwart suicide by overproducing Bcl-2, assuring them a long life." When the Hopkins researchers noticed that Bcl-2 and hedgehog expression increased ...

How the brain weaves a memory

...omehow the many features of an episodic memory are woven together into a coherent whole, and researchers have had little understanding of how this binding takes place as the memories are processed by the brain's memory center, the hippocampus. A central question has been whether the hippocampus receives an...

Researchers in Montréal and the US create model of key immune-system component

...w the phagosome works by revealing the intricately woven roles of all the molecules involved in killing infectious agents," says Joel Bader, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the High-Throughput Biology Center at Hopkins. According to Paul L’Archevêque, President and ...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

...lowed like a pill, injected through a catheter, or woven into fabric. Their function is to screen for, detect, and potentially treat, cancer and other diseases when they are still at a single-cell size in early development stages. They will also detect harmful pathogens in food and water. Engineering re...

Key mechanism in genetic inheritance during cell division identified

...icrotubules." Thousands of microtubule fibers are woven together to form a highly flexible cytoskeleton in biological cells that gives shape to cell walls and other structures, and controls the transportation of substances in and out of a cell. During cell division (mitosis), the microtubule fibers disass...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...rstand how the human body functions as a carefully woven fabric of interacting species. Ultimately, such understanding promises to provide new ways of fortifying health and preventing or treating a variety of diseases both inside and outside of the gastrointestinal tract." ...

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