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Although they are quite ugly and confined to a life underground, naked mole rats have at least one attribute that other animals, even humans, might aspire to: They don't get cancer.

A scientist pioneering research toward generating human organs in pigs has cleared one hurdle in gaining approval to continue his research in Japan.

Protein subcellular localization has been systematically characterized in budding yeast using fluorescently tagged proteins.

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From the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division , Molecular Cardiology , and Structural and Computational Biology Divisions , Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia; Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Brigham ... (more)

Calories in, calories out. Any dieter is familiar with the two sides of the equation for weight loss, usually reduced to eating less and exercising more.

Recent research has shown that cancer cells have a much different - and more complex - metabolism than normal cells.

The "Design, synthesis and structure of peptides and proteins" lab headed by Dr. Giralt, also senior professor at the University of Barcelona and holder of the 2011 Spanish National Research Prize, has synthesized two peptides , which, on irradiation with light, change shape, thereby allowing or preventing an specific protein-protein interaction.

How a banner biotech drug made in Chinese hamster ovary cells is changing disease even as it treats it.

A mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body - called 'chase and run' - has been described for the first time by scientists at UCL.

Memory improved in mice injected with a small, drug-like molecule discovered by UCSF San Francisco researchers studying how cells respond to biological stress .

The laboratory is in the process of evaluating hematopoietic stem cells as well as differentiating embryonic stem cells using a systems-based approaches involving next-generation sequencing technologies such as -seq and ChiP-seq to unravel transcription and regulatory mechanisms governing stem cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and ... (more)

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

From the Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Departments of Medicine , Pharmacology , and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology , Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; and Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia .

Life Technologies Corporation today announced the launch of Epi5 Episomal iPSC Reprogramming Vectors , the world's first product to be fully commercialized based on technology that won its developers a Nobel Prize in 2012 for the ability to easily reprogram adult human cells into an early embryonic state.

A mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body - called 'chase and run' - has been described for the first time by scientists at UCL.

Slowdowns in the transport and delivery of nutrients, proteins and signaling molecules within nerve cells may contribute to the development of the neurodegenerative disorder ALS, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

The Journal of Cell Biology , Vol. 193, No. 5. , pp. 819-829, doi:10.1083/jcb.201009012 Splicing is a key process that expands the coding capacity of genomes.

The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine states that delays in the transport and delivery of nutrients, proteins, and signaling molecules within nerve cells may bolster the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

A funded postdoctoral position in Neurobiology is available for a highly motivated candidate in the laboratory of Dr Cavalli at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine to participate in -funded research projects on the molecular mechanisms controlling axon regeneration.