«People who undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy for oral cancer often lose their sense of taste, leading to decreased interest in food, weight loss, and malnutrition,» said lead author M. Hakan Ozdener, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.,
a cellular biologist at Monell.
«Genetically, this type of clone is still a member of our species,» says David Prentice,
a cellular biologist at Indiana State University and cofounder of Do No Harm, a group of scientists favoring alternatives to embryonic stem cell research.
«We know a lot about exercise, but we still don't know how we obtain all the benefits,» says Rick Vega, a molecular and
cellular biologist at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Orlando, who was not involved in the experiment.
Not exact matches
Protein chemist Michael Way, cell
biologist Sally Cudmore, and their colleagues
at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and
at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have found that vaccinia — a virus used in smallpox vaccines — surfs through cells on piles of actin, one of the basic structural proteins in the
cellular skeleton.
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cell
biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Center, for his work on autophagy, the process in which cells degrade and recycle
cellular components.
Danny Hatters, a molecular
biologist at the University of Melbourne, says the study is a convincing demonstration that the Huntington's mutation begins disrupting normal
cellular events «very early in age and long before clinical diagnosis», he says.
«That issue starts
at the
cellular - molecular level, with the actual testing and the understanding that
biologists have of the pathology of colorectal cancer and diagnosis of colorectal cancer, all the way to the community uptake of that screening.»