Tag: Cell Biology

New understanding of cellular life cycle could inform transformative cancer treatmentCredit: The University of Texas at Arlington A scientist's research ...

Precise decoding of breast cancer cells creates new option for treatment

Credit: Johanna Wagner / UZH) Every year more than 1.7 million women all over the world are diagnosed with breast ...

Princeton scientists discover an interaction that helps cancers spread to bone

Credit: Image courtesy of Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang A Princeton-led team of researchers have discovered a factor that promotes ...

Rumford Prize for Georg Nagel

Credit: Picture: American Academy of Arts and Sciences The field of optogenetics was named "Breakthrough of the Decade" by the ...

Russian scientists alter 3D genome using ‘small molecules’

Credit: Omar Kantidze Researchers have discovered that the spatial organization of the genome can be altered using small molecule compounds ...

Novel approach promises ready access to hard-to-study proteins

Credit: Artwork designed for this paper by graduate student Stanford Mitchell MADISON, Wis. -- DNA and the genome, we know, ...

Scientists get sly, use deception to fight cancer

Hebrew University researchers create decoys that block RNA-binding proteins from spreading cancerCredit: Rotem Karni In recent years, it's become clear ...

‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits

Scientists in Cambridge and London have developed a catalogue of DNA mutation 'fingerprints' that could help doctors pinpoint the environmental ...

RNA transport in neurons — Staufen2 detects its target transcripts in a complex manner

Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen A team of scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Ulm has discovered ...

Cell biology: The complexity of division by two

New cells are formed during cell division by a precisely regulated partitioning of cellular content into the two daughter cells. ...

Tel Aviv University scientists print first 3D heart using patient’s biological materials

Cell-type specific mechanism for formation and retrieval of cocaine-associated memories

Credit: Kanazawa University The environmental context in which addicts experience the rewarding effects of cocaine can readily elicit cocaine-associated memories. ...

Developing a vaccine against Nipah virus

PHILADELPHIA -- Nipah virus is a type of RNA virus transmitted from animals to humans. The infection causes severe respiratory ...

Cancers ‘change spots’ to avoid immunotherapy

Bowel cancers can avoid being recognised by immunotherapy by switching off key molecule on surface of cells Growing mini tumours ...

Genetic variant linked to cucumber fruit length

The discovery of a fruit length modulator has implications for cucumber breedingCredit: Yiqun Weng The cucumber is among the top ...

Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling

Tags made of flashing DNA let researchers tease apart dozens of molecules at onceCredit: Shalin Shah, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...

Researchers develop effective method to diagnose pancreatic cancer

Thus, the prospects for early pancreatic cancer detection are of enormous importance. Innovation Fund Denmark has just granted 13.1 million ...

Scientists develop artificial chemical receptor to assist viral transduction for T cell engineering

Credit: CAI Lintao Engineered T cell immunotherapy, such as chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) and T cell receptor T ...

SRC-1 gene variants linked to human obesity

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine and University of Cambridge Maintaining a healthy body weight is no simple matter. A better ...

CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cures, advancing science