Science news articles about 'cell culture model'
A novel human stem cell-based model of ALS opens doors for rapid drug screening
... disease onset and progression. But we felt that cell culture models using both human neurons and astrocytes ... rapid advances in induced pluripotent stem cell technology will soon allow us to generate ...Jefferson scientists deliver toxic genes to effectively kill pancreatic cancer cells
... approach was originally developed in ovarian cancer cells by study co-author Janet Sawicki, ... protein production in the cancer cells." "It worked well in our cell culture models and now we are moving ...Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body
... Harry Rubin, professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, acknowledges that cancer ... cancer," he said. "Basic studies of a cell culture model for field cancerization should reveal ...'New' estrogen receptor found to be key player in tamoxifen resistance
... the research team developed the first cell culture model of tamoxifen-resistant, invasive lobular carcinoma. To do this, they took cells of this subtype and exposed them to low amounts of ...Penn study identifies how ebola virus avoids the immune system
... reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and effective virus. Using a cell culture model for Ebola virus infection, they have discovered that the virus disables a cellular protein called ...New findings raise questions about process used to identify experimental drug
... function of critical proteins in animal and cell-culture models that do not rely on firefly luciferase ... test PTC124's power to restore the ability of cells with nonsense mutations to produce full-length ...Could hormones explain gender differences in neurological disease?
... the DAT in a non-transfected rat neuronal cell culture model that expresses the three membrane estrogen receptors ERα, ERß, and GPR30. The authors found that estradiol- ...Pitt researchers find candidates for new HIV drugs
... Hck, which Nef activates in HIV-infected cells. Because Hck activity can be easily measured, ... showed strong antiviral activity in cell culture models." There is evidence that people infected with HIV ...Epilepsy drugs could treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
... previously unknown. Bao's team established cell culture models to directly test whether these drugs ... , neurons in the long-term and short-term cultures were protected, respectively, by L-type and T- ...
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