Science news articles about 'salk institute for biological studies'

  • Salk study links diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

    ... but the molecular connection between the two remains unexplained. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies identified the probable molecular basis for the diabetes – Alzheimer’s ...
  • Salk researchers reprogram adult stem cells in their natural environment

    ... cultured in the lab. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies achieved the same feat with ... change the fate of stem cells in the brain," says the study's lead author, Fred H. Gage, ...
  • Salk researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair

    ... . Now, a team of researchers led by Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, succeeded in boosting the reprogramming efficiency more than 100fold, while cutting the ...
  • AMPK signalling: Got food?

    A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies think they know how many - if not most - living organisms answer this question. They recently showed that when food supplies dwindle, ...
  • Research links diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

    ... but the molecular connection between the two remains unexplained. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies identified the probable molecular basis for the diabetes - Alzheimer's ...
  • Life without TORC is 1 big struggle

    ... maintain their energy balance when starved for food, reports a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings, published in the May 7, 2008 issue of Cell Metabolism, ...
  • Plant biologists discover unexpected proteins affecting small RNAs

    ... —scrambling for updated textbooks. A study by Salk Institute for Biological Studies investigator Joseph Ecker, ... Discovered a decade ago, numerous studies show that small RNAs put the brakes on the mRNA ...
  • Perfect vision but blind to light

    ... , they are both necessary to picture their environment. However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that eliminating a third sensor — cells expressing a photopigment ...
  • Perfect Vision But Blind To Light

    ... , they are both necessary to picture their environment. However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that eliminating a third sensor -- cells expressing a photopigment ...
  • Can you hear me now?

    ... multicellular organism higher up on the evolutionary tree, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered. Their study, which will be published during the week of July 7-11 ...
  • Stem cell chicken and egg debate moves to unlikely arena: the testes

    ... stem cell dependents. A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies led by Leanne Jones, ... cells emerge from SSCs. "Stem cell biology is a fast-moving field and insights from model ...
  • Researchers identify drugs that enhance exercise endurance

    ... devastating muscle-wasting diseases like muscular dystrophy. Evans and his colleagues, who are at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, published their findings on July 31, 2008, in an advance ...
  • Exercise pill is no replacement for exercise

    Recently, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a research organization focused on biology and its relation to health, published a study in the journal Cell on the results of a ...
  • Multi-tasking molecule holds key to allergic reactions

    ... even fatal. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered the molecular mechanisms ... Suzuki, Ph.D., who led the current study. During de-granulation, histamine is bundled ...
  • Distinguishing between 2 birds of a feather

    ... underlying neural mechanism has been less clear. Now, collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Weill Cornell Medical College has revealed that brain cells ...

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