Liver diseases: The enemy with an accomplice

Some diseases are typical to a period. The previous decades have shown a spurt of diseases like chronic viral hepatitis and liver cancer. Death toll due to these diseases have steadily risen. With figures soaring above the estimated limits, and with scientists finding a new association between the...

Research points to a new way to protect kidneys threatened by insufficient blood or toxins

...brane. Cytochrome c, a protein that normally helps mitchondrion breathe and produce fuel, escapes through the pores. Out of place, it becomes a deadly accomplice that activates suicide pathways. Interestingly, in a study published in 2007 in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA), Dr. Dong's l...

Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding

...x. Both mesenchymal and epithelial cells produce Fox, but the protein is active only in epithelial cells, Garcia-Blanco said. Fox also may have an accomplice or "co-factor" in or around epithelial cells that prompts it to activate, the researchers said. They speculate that this co-factor could be activated ...

Mobile Phone Messages Assists in Unraveling Murder Mystery

...re the newly-weds set off on their honeymoon. The couple, who are from Chennai, were married on June 7. Vidyalakshmi's lover, Anand, 24, and his accomplice Anburaj, 21, also hail from Chennai. K.A. Muhammed Faizel, Munnar deputy superintendent of police, who led the investigations, said police would...

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Splinter

...se. Splinter is a giant anthropomorphic rat who is the master of the Ninja Turtles. Kidnapped by an escaped convict (Shea Whigham) and his young accomplice (Rachel Kerbs), Seth Belzer (Paulo Costanzo) and Polly Watt (Jill Wagner) are thrust into the... splinter n. A sharp, slender piece, as of wood,...

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Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis

...ox. Both mesenchymal and epithelial cells produce Fox, but the protein is active only in epithelial cells, Garcia-Blanco said. Fox also may have an accomplice or "co-factor" in or around epithelial cells that prompts it to activate, the researchers said. They speculate that this co-factor could be activated ...

HIV infection requires an accomplice: B cells with special protein direct HIV to T cells

...called DC-SIGN. B cells are key players in an immune response. While these cells themselves do not become infected, they play a pivotal role as an accomplice in HIV's takeover of T cells. According to the research to be reported by Giovanna Rappocciolo, Ph.D., research assistant professor of infectious...

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Careful with that electronic health record, Mr. Leavitt

... be ours, not the insurer's. Let us return to the digitally secure dental office where an employee, pressured by financial difficulties, becomes an accomplice to a perfect crime. The employee asks a friend of a friend (who knows a buyer) for $5 for each stolen electronic health record, but is haggled down to...