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Hope for the treatment of kidney cancer
Kidney cancer usually has no symptoms until it has spread to other organs. This type of cancer is most difficult to treat. New chemical treatments promise to prolong sur…
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Distinguish normal cells and cancer cells
One of the current obstacles to cancer treatment is the difficulty of directing cures to the destruction of malignant cells without destroying other healthy cells.
Biology
Stem cell function in normal cells of plants
Conventional cells are able to replace lost organs in plants discovered by researchers at New York University's Center for Genomics and Biological Systems and Utrecht Un…
Biology
Catch a 'fasting' tumor to kill cancer
A group of American and Belgian experts found that lactic acid is an important source of energy for cancer cells.
Biology
The secret of extending life
American biologists believe that flies possess two special genes that help them reverse the biological clock and prolong life.
Biology
Successful reconstruction of retinal cells
US scientists have just recreated mammalian retinal cells. Tests on mice can open new avenues for treating human eye diseases.
Biology
Theory of new 'engine'
For decades biologists have known that cells use very small molecular motors to move chromosomes, mitochondria, and other organelles in the cell.
Biology
Art of seduction of leukemia
Leukocytes emit an extremely attractive chemical to attract stem cells to make blood to their lair. After entering the lair of white blood cells, stem cells will quickly…
Biology
Bacteria know how to cooperate and sacrifice for their kind
In the microscopic world, even small creatures like bacteria know how to adopt a cooperative and sacrifice strategy to ensure the survival of the community.
Biology
Find out the genetic map of cancer
US scientists have found 10 gene mutations that are crucial for the development of leukemia in a woman.
Biology
Japan successfully cloned dead mouse cells
By cloning techniques, Japanese scientists have just succeeded in creating live versions of a long-dead mouse.
Biology
Many viruses together determine the fate of bacterial cells
New research shows that bacterial infection can determine whether to kill the host cell immediately after entering or entering a
Biology
68 molecules key to understanding critical disease
Why is the origin of many serious diseases still a mystery? A scientist gave a view on an indivisible cell, a living unit, to come up with a specific answer.
Biology
Bacteria that cause food poisoning prefer duck to beef
Listeria poisoning bacteria can live on surfaces in a meat processing plant if certain other bacteria are present.
Biology
Flies also suffer from 'neighbors'
Two new studies are published in the September 11 edition of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, revealing that fruit flies are also affected by neighbors.