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Las defensas inmunitarias se basan en una potencial oncoproteína

Dicyt -- Un trabajo... ha descubierto una proteína encargada de permitir la diferenciación de linfocitos T citotóxicos CD8+ en linfocitos de memoria: la proteína N-ras (more)

Regenerating Limbs And Fingers In ... Humans?

International Business Times -- One of the long-term goals of regeneration research is to understand why humans have such limited regenerative potential (more)

Portuguesa descobre como expandir número de células estaminais

Diário IOL -- Uma investigadora portuguesa descobriu uma forma de aumentar o número de células estaminais, o que poderá permitir transplantes diretos destas células para doentes com leucemia (more)

Hallan mecanismo de tumores

Su Médico -- Después de 20 años de investigación se da a conocer una función de los tumores para no ser "vistos" por el sistema inmune (more)

Descubren que el bloqueo de una proteína frena el avance del cáncer

Los Andes -- Un grupo de científicos del Conicet trabaja con un anticuerpo que permitiría eliminar la forma que tiene de crecer y alimentarse un tumor (more)

The experiment that first hinted at the existence of DNA

io9 -- Griffith's experiment was performed in 1928, and so it was only much later that that transforming property was shown to be DNA (more)

Keegan Hines in Aldrich lab publishes in Journal of General Physiology

CLM News -- This research analyzes a recently proposed fluorescence method for studying protein complexes such as ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors (more)

Vegetables protect against inflammatory diseases

Irish Times -- More Vitamin A in your diet could protect you against inflammatory bowel diseases, Irish scientists have shown (more)

Vitamin A plays protective role in inflammatory bowel disease

MTBeurope -- Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that Vitamin A can reduce the damaging immune responses that lead to inflammatory bowel disease (more)

Restraining natural killer cells

Nat. Med. -- In a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, Jonathan Sitrin et al. show that ablation of T_reg cells induces the accumulation and activation of NK cells in the pancreas, leading to diabetes (more)