... changes studied in the peritoneum are similar to cell transformations in tumor formation and inflammation. Their findings may aid in greater understanding of cell change in these situations, as well.
... weight loss, indicating that the number of fat cells is set during childhood and adolescence.
Carbon ... group looked at whether the number of fat cells changes under extreme conditions such as drastic ...
... our weight, researchers are interested in knowing how the number of fat cells changes over our lifetime - do we stop making more fat cells after adolescence? Do we keep the same fat cells all ...
... But Myc is essential, at lower levels, for normal cell function. So, switching Myc all the way ... detailed picture of how the cancer cells changed as Myc dropped. They measured changes in gene activity, ...
... with other cells.
"This work is important in helping us understand how the sugars made by the cells change during this process.
"We also believe our research might suggest how sugars can be used to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig's disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have measured changes in birds' brain cells and discovered the cells change as the birds are exposed to new sounds.
... the astrocytes undergo a major structural reorganization. The numerous "tentacles" withdraw and the cell changes from being multipolar to unipolar, displaying one single major protrusion that extends ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a ...
... chronic infections, the body's key immune cells often become exhausted and ineffective. Researchers at ... gene expression in killer T cells changed dramatically as the cells became exhausted and immune ...
... with cancer, the number of different kinds of proteins in a cell changes.
The new research outlines how an imaging ... DNA in the human genome project. All human cells contain the same 20,000 genes but ...
... able to stimulate the Müller glia cells to re-start their dividing engines and begin ... indicate progenitor cells. Soon some of these general cells changed into amacrine cells. The researchers detected ...
Natural changes in voltage that occur across the membrane of adult human stem cells act as a signal to delay or accelerate the decision of a stem cell to ...
... some time that the gene expression profile of an aging cell changes and somehow is linked to age-related ... a structure that would last for the entire life of the cell."
Hetzer and his group then set ...
... postdoctoral fellow Prabhakar Pradhan. The new technique measures nanoscopic changes to the interior architecture of cells -- changes that may signal signs of cancer even in cells that look normal ...
