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• Fruit fly nerve cells rebuild themselves after injury

  
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  Washington, Dec 7 (IANS) Specialised nerve or brain cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after an injury, says a new study based on fruit flies.These results potentially open up newer ways of treating traumatic nerve damage or neuro-degenerative disease.The discovery of an injured neuron’s remarkable ability ...
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• ‘Live’ spread of cancer cells tracked

  
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  London, December 7 (ANI): Scientists have managed to track the spread, or metastasis, of individual breast cancer cells with ‘live’ imaging.Dr. Erik Sahai, of Cancer Research UK, led the study with laboratory mice, adding hope for new cures to block the metastatic breast cancer route.Experts followed the movement ...
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• Circadian clock genes control appetite, consumption in fruit flies

  
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  Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): A Delhi University alumni has discovered that fruit flies’ appetite and consumption are controlled by two rival sets of circadian clocks, one in neurons and the other in the fly fat body, which is analogous to the liver. Dr. Amita Sehgal, one of the pioneers in research on sleepwake ...
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• Live imaging reveals breast cancer cells transition to metast...

  
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  (American Society for Cell Biology) The spread, or metastasis, of individual breast cancer cells from the main tumor into the blood circulation to the lungs and other body tissues and organs is under the control of a growth factor abbreviated TGFb, according to a study with laboratory mice that will be presented at ...
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• Rational drug design identifies fragments of FDA-approved drug...

  
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  (American Society for Cell Biology) A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1 (avian flu) ...
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• Rational drug design identifies fragments of FDA-approved drug...

  
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  (American Society for Cell Biology) A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could be the basis for new medicines -- if emerging viruses such as the H5N1 (avian flu) ...
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• How stem cells win body’s battle for survival

  
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  Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): Human body is a battle zone, where cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Now a new study conducted on fruit flies has shed light on how stem cells win the battle for survival.“Our work exemplifies how one signal coordinately maintains two types of stem cells in a ...
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• Grooving down the helix

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 433
  A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes. The research, ...
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• Female Canaries Sing Sexily With Testosterone

  
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  Normally, female canaries don’t sing, but with a few tweaks, the females’ brain structure can be altered in a way that lets them burst into song.Testosterone gets female canaries singing. Dutch researcher Tessa Hartog knows how you can make a female canary sing using testosterone and the protein BDNF. Normally, ...
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• ERKs got rhythm: Protein that controls cell growth found to cycle in and out of cell nucleus

  
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  Time-lapsed video of individual breast tissue cells reveals a never-before-seen event in the life of a cell: a protein that cycles between two major compartments in the cell. The results give researchers a more complete view of the internal signals that cause breast tissue cells to grow, events that go awry in cancer ...
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• 01 December, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Complexity Abounds, Oxygen Deprived Mole Rats, TWi The End of The World!, Lagging Brain Time, That Hearing Feeling, Once Again… Man Woman Differences, TWIS In Space, Minion Mailbag, and Much More…
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• A smorgasbord of fluorescent proteins

  
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  Live cell imaging techniques are driving a revolution in biological research. Instead of viewing dead tissues and cells fixed at a particular stage of activity, scientists can now visualize dynamic changes as they happen, permitting a better understanding of complete processes. The revolution has been fueled by the ...
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• Study shows new brain connections form rapidly during motor learning

  
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  New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature . Led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study involved detailed observations of the rewiring processes that take place in the brain during ...
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• Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors

  
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  When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new proteins to defend them against damage, scientists have discovered.
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• Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets

  
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  Whitehead researchers have developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens, according to their paper in Science .
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• UK; Ph.D. Programme in Biomedical Sciences

  
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  School of Biomedical SciencesWellcome Trust – funded 4-year Ph.D. programme in Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyThe University of Liverpool is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for research in cellular and molecular physiology.We have five places on the programme from October 2010 each with a ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons

  
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  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brains stem cells -neurogenesis- and strengthens their differentiation in different types of neuron cells. The research ...
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• Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action

  
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  The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). These protein motors play pivotal roles in gene ...
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• Emerging Model Organisms for November

  
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  We’re getting toward the end of the second volume of our Emerging Model Organisms series in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols , and November’s issue brings us a look at the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid and the genus Dioscorea , or True Yams. Euprymna scolopes , the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (our cover model this month, ...
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