Breakthrough in sex-chromosome regulation
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have uncovered a chromosome-wide mechanism that keeps the gene expression of ...
Tag: Cell Biology
MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in ...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...
Research to focus on small molecule that can help fight breast cancer
UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative projectCredit: Perry lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...
Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries
Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Twenty million Americans suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which can be caused by traumas ...
Father’s obesity in puberty doubles the risk of asthma in his future offspring
A Norwegian study shows that boys who are obese in pre-puberty have an over two times higher risk of having ...
Discovery of new source of cancer antigens may expand cancer vaccine capabilities
Credit: Arizona State University For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University's ...
R01 grant funds research examining small RNAs in metastatic breast cancer
Credit: University of Cincinnati Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, associate professor of cancer biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, ...
Cloning to fight esophageal cancer
Recreating the steps to malignancy leads to faster drug discoveryCredit: University of Houston Using cloning technology to aid in the ...
Stopping the spread of cancer
University of Utah biomedical engineer receives $1.5 million grant to develop innovative methods to halt spread of cancerCredit: Dan Hixson/University ...
Texas Biomed awarded $2.8 Million NIH grant for novel TB research
Mechanisms under study could lead to new host drug targetsCredit: Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (September 25, 2019) - Researchers ...
High-fructose and high-fat diet damages liver mitochondria, study finds
Increases fatty-liver disease risk and metabolic syndromeCredit: Stephanie M. McPherson BOSTON - (October 1, 2019) - Researchers at Joslin Diabetes ...
Earthquake in the cell
Scientists discover how a modification of the nuclear lamina maintains nuclear shapeCredit: © MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Adam Karoutas ...
Discovery enables clear identification of diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes
This study not only solves the problem of cell separation in the laboratory, but helps improve understanding of how type ...
‘Poisoned arrowhead’ used by warring bacteria could lead to new antibiotics
Credit: T.E. Wood et al. (2019) A weapon bacteria use to vanquish their competitors could be copied to create new ...
Discovered new regulation for infant growth
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have identified new genetic signals for the regulation of how infants grow; ...
Inscripta launches the world’s first benchtop platform for digital genome engineering
The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a ...
Cracking how ‘water bears’ survive the extremes
Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as ...
Organoid research revealed at Neuroscience 2019
Live-streamed press conference offers breaking researchCredit: Society for Neuroscience Mini-brains, also called organoids, may offer breakthroughs in clinical research by ...
Skin-cells-turned-to-heart-cells help unravel genetic underpinnings of cardiac function
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Genome-wide association studies have uncovered more than 500 genetic variants linked to heart function, ...
