Tag: Cell Biology

July 26, 2021

Credit: Nicole Valenzuela AMES, Iowa - A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how ...

Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know

People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's ...

“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies

Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael ...

Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots

Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called ...

Device cracks milk protein

'Refolding' molecules to support medical solutionsCredit: Flinders University After gaining world attention by 'unboiling' egg protein, Flinders University scientists have ...

Study on chromosomal rearrangements in yeast reveals potential avenue for cancer therapy

Researchers from Osaka University uncover a mechanism by which chromosomal rearrangements occur, with implications for novel cancer therapiesCredit: Osaka University ...

Pathogens get comfy in designer goo

Rice, Baylor labs use custom hydrogels to mimic insides of intestines, study infectious bacteriaCredit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON ...

Cardio-cerebrovascular disease history complicates hematopoietic cell transplant outcomes

Researchers find pre-transplant cardiovascular diseases indirectly affect mortality and survival through increased post-transplant disease occurrenceCredit: Chinese Medical Journal Hematopoietic cell ...

Characterized drugs show unexpected effects

Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular ...

HKU scientists harness the naturally abundant CRISPR-Cas system to edit superbugs with the hope of treating infections caused by drug resistant pathogens

Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team led by Dr Aixin YAN, Associate Professor from the Research Division ...

How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?

Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...

New approach eradicates breast cancer in mice

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new approach to treating breast cancer kills 95-100% of cancer ...

New scoring system for assessing wound healing

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 21, 2021-- Evaluating the efficacy of novel therapies requires the ...

Researchers discover nucleotide sequence responsible for effectively fighting pathologies