Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 17, 2019-Short bowel syndrome is a debilitating condition with few ...

Using unconventional materials, like ice and eggshells, as scaffolds to grow tissues

Credit: Nguyen and Camci-Unal/Trends in Biotechnology As the global demand for tissue and organ transplants significantly outstrips supply, tissue engineering ...

Scientists construct energy production unit for a synthetic cell

Credit: Bert Poolman / BaSyC consortium Scientists at the University of Groningen have constructed synthetic vesicles in which ATP, the ...

Researchers develop thermo-responsive protein hydrogel

NYU Tandon-led team crosses barrier needed to deliver drugs at the cellular level and to engineer tissueCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, ...

Programmable swarmbots make flexible biological tools

The biomanufacturing platform uses bursting bacteria and a shrinking capsule to produce targeted proteinsCredit: Zhuojun Dai DURHAM, N.C.-- Biomedical engineers ...

Every step a cell takes, every move they make — scientists will be watching

Scientists have created a novel two-layer microchip to track individual developmental changes in stem cells over longer time periodsCredit: Ben-Yakar ...

Mutant live attenuated Ebola virus immunizes non-human primates

Credit: Woolsey and Menicucci et al./Cell Reports Inoculation with an Ebola virus that has mutations in a protein called VP35 ...

HKUST researchers unlock cancer-causing mechanism of E. coli toxin with synthetic biology approach

Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology While human gut microbes like E. coli help digest food and ...

New method reveals how damage occurs in human biological cells due to mechanical fatigue

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Human red blood cells (RBCs) are extremely resilient and have the capacity to undergo cellular deformation ...

How nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron

Credit: University of East Anglia Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered how nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron - ...

Defective cilia linked to heart valve birth defects

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina identify mutations in ciliary genes causing bicuspid aortic valve -- the most ...

Is copper a cause of Alzheimer’s disease?

University of Houston researcher examines the linkCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston chemist is exploring the link between ...

The sleep neuron in threadworms is also a stop neuron

Sleep or stop? The RIS neuron has both functions; publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Wagner Steuer Costa Wagner Steuer Costa in ...

Too much of a good thing: Overactive immune cells trigger inflammation

Credit: DBM Scientists describe a previously unknown disorder of the immune system: in a distinct subset of immune cells from ...

Acute periodontal disease bacteria love colon and dirt microbes

Credit: Derren Ready (2012) CIL:38942, CIL. Dataset. https://doi.org/doi:10.7295/W9CIL38942 Creative Commons license True or false? Bacteria living in the same space, ...

Anti-aging startup launched based on breakthrough UAB research

Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Together, hair loss prevention and anti-aging skincare represent a more than $11 billion market. ...

Scientists discover hidden differences among cells that may help them evade drug therapy

The discovery by UMD researchers suggests 'functional mosaicism' could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapseCredit: Snusha Ravikumar/University of Maryland ...

Malaria could be felled by an Antarctic sea sponge

Credit: Bill Baker The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations ...

Texas Biomed researchers pinpoint why HIV patients are more likely to develop tuberculosis

Discovery could lead to new added therapy for HIV patientsCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (September 11, 2019) ...

How IL-6 allows the immune response to develop for a key cell, the T follicular helper