NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 29th September 2008 04:14 PM GMT] A protein belonging to part of the immune system that researchers once hoped to harness to attack cancer cells actually spurs tumor growth, according to a study reported in Nature Immunology.
Researchers knocked out a receptor for one of a group of 30 proteins called complement proteins, part of the body's normal immune defense repertoire, and observed... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 18th September 2008 05:10 PM GMT] A fat-based hormone, the first of its kind to be identified, may regulate the body's metabolic rate, according to a report in this week's Cell. The results paradoxically suggest that aspects of metabolic disease could be controlled by spurring the production of new fat cells.
"There's a strong dogma that excess fat is bad in every form, that the effects will always be negative," said principal investigator... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th September 2008 06:43 PM GMT] Thirty-eight researchers were awarded with grants totaling $42.2 million dollars this week for their " wild and crazy " ideas to change the way science is done.
The EUREKA program (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration), sought proposals from investigators that were innovative, but required little or no preliminary data.
"There were so many good... Click to continue
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