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Engineered mini-stomachs produce insulin in mice
A section of the gastric mini-organ engineered to produce insulin-secreting cells, with immunofluorescent staining. This image shows many induced insulin-producing cells (red) present in...
Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer
To trace the cause of metastasis in pancreatic cancer, the CSHL team used cells sampled from six mice to grow paired sets of pancreatic...
Researchers crack the smile, describing three types by muscle movement
This image shows from left to right the reward smile, affiliative smile and dominance smile.
Credit: Courtesy of Paula Niedenthal
The smile may be the most...
Nanoparticles loaded with component of common spice kill cancer cells
Neuroblastomas are cancers that start in early nerve cells and commonly form in the tissue of the adrenal glands, near the kidneys. About 700...
DNA find reveals new insights into the history of cattle in Europe
Metacarpus of a small and compact adult bovid found in Twann after sampling for genetic analysis.
Credit: Illustration: University of Basel, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological...
Isotopes in prehistoric cattle teeth suggest herding strategies used during the Neolithic
Cattle mobility patterns at the Neolithic wetland site of Arbon Bleiche 3. Settlement plan with reconstructed houses and distribution of cattle mobility patterns (MP)...
Biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’
Activating a gene called AMPK in the nervous system induces the anti-aging cellular recycling process of autophagy in both the brain and intestine. Activating...
Cancer drug makes fruit flies live longer
100 day old female fruit fly.
Credit: Dr Nazif Alic, UCL
Adult fruit flies given a cancer drug live 12% longer than average, according to a...
Understanding aging: Stem cell dysfunction links cancer and aging
Wholemount immunostaining for a Keratin-15-GFP transgenic reporter (green) on mouse tail epidermis labels a population of stem cells that undergoes age-associated changes. Co-stained with...
Key events early in process of cellular aging defined
Yeast cells, outlined in blue, each contain one vacuole, outlined in red. The acidity of the vacuole is indicated by the green dye: lower...
Research explains action of drug that may slow aging, related disease
This study suggests that a combination of rapamycin and another drug to offset that increase in insulin resistance might provide the benefits of this...
