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Category Archives: biology
Reprogramming of the cells to be something other than what they are…
Human organs are made of cells. But all cells are not made equal. There is quite a bit of diversity. Most of our organs like skin, bones, muscles, heart, brain, lungs and other internal organs are made up of cells … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cell, omnipotent, pluripotent, science, science news, stem cells, totipotent
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Flu prevention and cure if infected close at hand?
A lot of people get sick every year due to the influenza virus. Some are hospitalized and a few even die. It’s intersting to see how the hospitalization rates varied over years CDC tracks this very closely as they do … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Flu, GM-CSF, H1N1, health, immune system, influenza, science, science news, virus
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Longer telomeres means longer life but also reduced cancer risk?
Evidence has indicated that there’s an inherited factor that helps determine telomere length and that short telomere length is a risk factor for cancer. No one had every connected the two, until now. Jian Gu, Ph.D., assistant professor in MD … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cancer, cell, science, science news, telomerase, telomere, telomeres
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The idea of combining genetics and our own immune response that might enable us to finally win the war against bacterial infections
Bacteria are the most adaptive species on the planet. They continuously mutate and as such any antibiotic treatment that we come up with they can develop immunity to. It’s like a war where the enemy is 100 times smarter and … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, bacteria, biology, DNA, DNA targeting, infections, infectious diseases, science, science news
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Believing is better than not believing!
I am not talking about God. Belief in your own abilities make you do wonders. I wrote a while back about the finding that believing you can get smarter actually makes you smarter. Now this article in Psychological science says … Continue reading
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Tagged confidence, Intelligence, memory, Psychology, science, science news
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Telomerase inhibitor PINX1 is a key tumor suppressor
Telomeres are ends of choromosomes. For cell division to start and complete ends of chromosomes are essential. Without these, cell can’t divide any more. Each cell can divide a finite number of times before it’s done. It acts like a … Continue reading
Posted in biology, cancer, science
Tagged apoptosis, cancer, cell, chemotherapy, genetics, science, science news, stem cells, telomerase, telomere, telomeres
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Playing the probability game and winning
Life is a game of probabilities. When it comes to health or wealth that’s especially true. In the world of investing everyone is guessing where the market goes next day, week, month, year, or whatever period. Being able to predict … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, health, immunization, prevention, science, science news, vaccine
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A better understanding of how Flu invades our bodies and cells helps give us better insight into prevention and mitigation
This is a very good article on the NSF website and research work on understanding common flu and also possibly H1N1 and other variants. In order to infect a healthy cell, a flu virus must enter the cell (upper left) … Continue reading
In general males have higher tendency to be autistic than females. New evidence for the genetic cause for this found by scientists from George Washington University.
George Washington University researcher, Dr. Valerie Hu, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression of an important gene RORA through a … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, biology, health, science, science news
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We know Bacteria can evolve. Is there emergence of intelligence in simple rules governing bacterial evolution?
Bacteria is the most successful life form we know of and has adopted very well. It will, most likely, out live any life form we know of. Probably the only thing that can outlive bacteria is virus. But by many … Continue reading