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What Your Body Will Do In The Next 30 Seconds

You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn’t though. In order to keep everything running, there’s a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds.

9 February 2013

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This Single Molecule Drives Cancer Cells To Suicide

A team of researchers has identified a single molecule, called TIC10, that kick-starts the body’s tumour-destroying systems — causing a chain reaction that can kill cancer dead.

22 January 2013

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Scientists Spot Quadruple Helix DNA Working In Human Cells

Forget the humble double helix: scientists from Cambridge University have now spotted four-stranded strings of DNA working inside human cells.

15 January 2013

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This Is What A Virus Infecting A Cell Looks Like

This isn’t a cartoon tree or some strange piece of modern art. It’s what researchers from the University of Texas at Austin saw when they managed to observe a virus in the act of penetrating a cell.

26 November 2012

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These Tiny Pyramids Are Microscopic Cages For Cells

Cells are three-dimensional so it makes sense to study them in a three-dimensional context, right? That’s what researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands thought, which is why they made these little cages for studying live cells, instead of using a flat petri dish.

18 September 2012

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Scientists Discover A Way To Hack Your Body’s Cell Network

A new discovery by Swiss researchers could put a mobile phone under your skin. By modifying how cells react to certain genes and enzymes, the researchers were able to make them communicate and exchange information. Kind of like if they were on the phone.

29 August 2012

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Cyborg Tissue Acts As Smart Scaffolding At Cellular Level

A team at Harvard University has developed a cyborg tissue material that is a literal mesh of nanoscale electronics and cells, able to support cell growth while at the same time monitoring biological activities at the cellular level.

24 August 2012

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Scientists Find Another Path To The Fountain Of Eternal Youth

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered an efficient and safe method to turn adult blood cells “all the way back to the way [they were] when that person was a six-day-old embryo“. The discovery could be the key to cure the incurable and open the door some day to eternal youth.

2 August 2012

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The Molecule That Stops Cancer From Spreading

Cancer often feels like a curse on humanity, but it has become increasingly treatable, especially when it’s isolated to a single organ. The problem typically comes when a cancer spreads, because it makes removing it far more difficult — but now scientists have discovered a molecule that might encourage cancer to remain in just the tissue it originally affects.

19 July 2012

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Scientists Use Skin To Replace Brain Cells Destroyed By Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease is an incurable degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. But now a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins has grown the brain cells, which are usually destroyed by the disease from skin stem cells, and they’re confident it will help them develop new treatments.

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