Iron nanorobots show their true mettle
Credit: 2019 KAUST Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumor using an external magnetic ...
Tag: Cell Biology
Scientists short-circuit maturity in insects, opening new paths to disease prevention
Puberty-controlling hormone does not travel freely into the brain as previously thoughtCredit: Naoki Yamanaka / UCR New research from UC ...
Unanticipated response to estrogen at the single cell level
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that not only do ...
Kiss and run: How cells sort and recycle their components
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel What can be reused and what can be disposed of? Cells also face this tricky ...
Unique centromere type discovered in the European dodder
Credit: Jiri Macas České Budějovice/Gatersleben, 27.01.2020 Whenever the European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is under scientific scrutiny, it usually is due ...
New look at odd holes involved in taste, Alzheimer’s, asthma
Credit: Furukawa lab/CSHL, 2020 Many cells are covered with mysterious large holes, pores that have been associated with the sense ...
Human Body-on-Chip platform enables in vitro prediction of drug behaviors in humans
Fluidically-linked systems of multiple human Organ Chips that quantitatively predict drug pharmacokinetics may offer alternatives to some animal testsCredit: Wyss ...
Superfast insights into cellular events
New development makes tiny structural changes in biomolecules visibleCredit: Goethe University In the same way that a single piece of ...
Consequences of Zika virus attack on glial cells
Brazilian publication unravels the effects of Zika on astrocytes, one of the most damaged cells during the virus infectionCredit: Taken ...
New portable tool analyzes microbes in the environment
Device could be used to find threats to ecosystemsCredit: Jianye Sui Imagine a device that could swiftly analyze microbes in ...
Discovery sheds new light on how cells move
Credit: Photo by UW-Madison College of Engineering When we cut our skin, groups of cells rush en masse to the ...
Shaping the social networks of neurons
Identification of a protein complex that attracts or repels nerve cells during developmentCredit: Falconieri Visuals, LLC and del Toro et ...
Stanford researchers conduct census of cell surface proteins
Credit: Liqun Luo Stanford scientists have completed the first global census of diverse proteins sprouting tree-like from the outer membrane ...
Chemicals in the environment: A focus on mixtures
Combined chemical and bioanalytical methods are able to efficiently characterize chemical mixturesCredit: Bodo Tiedemann Chemicals have improved our quality of ...
Immune system cells contribute to the invading capacity of brain tumours
Credit: INc-UAB In a study published in Brain Communications, a new Open Access publication of the well-known journal Brain, the ...
New light shed on damaging impact of infrared and visible rays on skin
Credit: Newcastle University, UK The damage visible and infrared light can do to our skin has been revealed for the ...
Inhibition of p38 reduces the growth of lung tumours
Credit: IRB Barcelona In 2018, 1.7 million people died from lung cancer worldwide, a number equivalent to the population of ...
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from making fat
Credit: copy University of Louvain Olivier Feron, a researcher at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Institute of Experimental and Clinical ...
How’re your cells’ motors running?
A new 'molecular nano-patterning' technique reveals that some molecular motors coordinate differentlyCredit: Science Graphics Japan -- Any kind of body ...
Life’s Frankenstein beginnings
New evidence shows the first building blocks of life on Earth may have been messier than previously thoughtCredit: Don Kawahigashi/Unsplash ...
