... , which mimics the biology of HCV infection in humans.
"This is the first efficient and consistent model system for HCV to be developed," said Buck, adding that it will now enable researchers not ...
... the bilayer, like a baton handed off by relay runners.
The researchers are continuing to use their model system to better understand the role amyloid beta peptides play in early-stage Alzheimer’s ...
... depression. The study, published by Cell Press in the October 9th issue of Neuron, may provide a good model system for testing cellular and molecular interactions between antidepressive ...
... a newly discovered species of microsporidia, which infects C. elegans, the round worm used as a model system by developmental biologists. The work, undertaken by a team of French and American ...
... recreated a functional stem-cell niche for further study. Weissman and his colleagues plan to use the model system to determine how the niche environment interacts with the blood stem cells to affect ...
... weight.
Earlier attempts to develop mathematical models of metabolic weight regulation did not specifically ... nervous system to control both food intake and energy expenditure. Tam's model focuses ...
... issue of Cell Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators outline a system in which there may be several steady states to which an animal's weight tends to gravitate, rather than a ...
... role is probably yes," said Keating. "However, proving it is not easy. With a simple reversible model system, we could test this idea and learn how large an effect is possible."
These primitive cells ...
... March 21,2009 of the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this problem and presents a novel model system more comparable to the in vivo situation in patients. Dr. van Geer and his colleagues ...
... a layer of endothelial cells – the cells that line blood vessels, which permeate the liver. In this model system liver cells recovered their metabolic activity much faster than in previous models – ...
... findings from its novel human-in-mouse (HIM) cancer model system, in which AVEO successfully created invasive human tumors from primary human breast tissue that develop over time ...
A new international project will create the first carbon measuring and modelling system to be used to help mitigate climate change, verify the benefits of controversial offsetting initiatives and ...
... field may find surprising, and one that makes their new model system better suited to advancing neuropathy ... developed techniques for growing various nervous system cells in serum-free media, including ...
... motor nerves that are insulated and organized the same way they are in the body. The group's model system could dramatically improve understanding of the causes of myelin-related conditions such as ...
... -grown motor nerves that are insulated and organized just like they are in the human body. The model system will drastically improve understanding of the causes of myelin-related conditions, such as ...
