Ribosomes found to induce somatic cell pluripotency
Credit: Associate Professor Kunimasa Ohta In 2012, a Japanese research group discovered that human skin cells acquire pluripotency when introduced to lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus...
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New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology (Ueli Aebi, head),...
Kidney transplants: White blood cells control virus replication
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus under control after kidney transplantations....
Circulating tumor cells associated with relapse in late-stage melanoma patients
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study revealing a connection between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and relapse in stage IV melanoma patients points to liquid...
Nature’s smallest rainbows, created by peacock spiders, may inspire new optical…
Credit: Dr. Jürgen C. Otto, co-author Brightly colored Australian peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) captivate even the most arachnophobic viewers with their flamboyant courtship displays featuring...
In urban streams, pharmaceutical pollution is driving microbial resistance
Credit: Sylvia Lee (Millbrook, NY) In urban streams, persistent pharmaceutical pollution can cause aquatic microbial communities to become resistant to drugs. So reports a new...
Fanged friends: World’s most vilified and dangerous animals may be humankind’s best ally
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (January 18, 2018) – An international review led by the University of Queensland and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) says...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's Research Institute at the 59th...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's Research Institute at the 59th...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and...
In vitro tests of Vype vapor reveal no cell stress, DNA damage or cell transformation
A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapour revealed no activity in cells exposed to vapour...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats. These first primates spent...
Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style
Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds' migration, as predicted by the...
World’s smallest tape recorder is built from microbes
Credit: T. Frenzel et al., Science (2017) NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 23, 2017) — Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical...
Stem cell therapy improves outcomes in severe heart failure
CHICAGO (April 4, 2016) — A new stem cell therapy significantly improved long-term health outcomes in patients with severe and end-stage heart failure in a...
