Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA - (June 14, 2019) Diana Hargreaves, an assistant professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology ...

UMass Amherst cell biologist chosen for Pew Scholars Biomedical Research Program

Award includes four years of funding to explore biomedicine's most challenging questionsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lillian ...

Pew funds 22 scientists to pursue innovative biomedical research

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced 22 early-career researchers who have been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in ...

Pew funds biomedical research for 10 Latin American scientists

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 2019 class members of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical ...

Exciting plant vacuoles

Credit: Dawid Jaslan / University of Würzburg Many plant processes are not different from humans: Cells and tissues in grain ...

It’s not easy being green

UCR research uncovers elusive process essential to plant greeningCredit: Chan Yul Yoo / UC Riverside Despite how essential plants are ...

Mutant bacterial receptor could point to new therapies against opportunistic pathogen

Credit: McCready AR, et al. (2019) Researchers have developed a new mutant version of a receptor used by a bacterial ...

Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill’ to move cargo across bacterial cells

State-of-the-art technologies reveal bacterial cells organized like human cells, offering insights for new phage therapies on untreatable infectionsCredit: Video created ...

Polycomb protein EED plays a starring role in hippocampal development

Credit: Liu Changmei The dentate gyrus (DG) is the input region of the hippocampus and plays an important role in ...

Special fibroblasts help pancreatic cancer cells evade immune detection

Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related ...

The start of a new era in stem cell therapy

Credit: Tamer Onder & Team ISTANBUL, TURKEY - A recent study published in the April 8 issue of Nature Chemical ...

Researchers develop new method to rapidly, reliably monitor sickle cell disease

Technology doesn't require microscopic imaging or biochemical markersCredit: Florida Atlantic University Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder that affects ...

CNIO researchers find effective drug combinations for glioblastoma in mice

Credit: CNIO Usually, scientists study the molecular biology of cancer to find new treatments, but sometimes, it is the other ...

Enhanced human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip performs in vivo-like drug and antibody transport

Microfluidic Organ Chip model of human blood-brain barrier that recapitulates in vivo barrier functions offers new preclinical tool for development ...

A microscopic topographic map of cellular function

A decade of research leads MU scientists to a better understanding of how materials move out of cellsCredit: University of ...

Norovirus structures could help develop treatments for food poisoning

Credit: Joshua-Tor lab/CSHL 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Noroviruses are a leading cause of food-borne illness outbreaks, accounting for ...

Nuclear pore complex outer rings: No longer ‘one size fits all’

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - In eukaryotic cells, the nucleus is walled off from the rest of the cell ...

Bacteria such as E. coli detected in minutes by new technology from Warwick University

Scientists at the University of Warwick have shown that bioelectrical signals from bacteria can be used to rapidly determine if ...

How the cell protects itself

Researchers from Göttingen discover the mechanism that prevents damage caused by shortened proteinsCredit: Heike Krebber The cell contains transcripts of ...

Reaching and grasping — Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain