Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive ...

Researchers advance effort to manage parasitic roundworms

Patent-pending discoveryCredit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers ...

Osteoblastic cell stimulation by pulsed electromagnetic fields

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 27, 2019-Bone fracture healing can be augmented with the application ...

Interest in RNA editing heats up

The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has attracted much excitement and investor interest with its potential to someday treat diseases ...

Researchers optimize aptamer with enhanced myelin-binding properties for MS treatment

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 27, 2019--A new study has demonstrated the enhanced ability of ...

The regeneration of a cell depends on where it is positioned

Credit: Minoru Kubo A simple tissue sample from a plant, like a branch or leaf, can grow into a whole ...

Tumor-promoting enzymes USP25 and USP28: Substantial differences identified

Credit: Picture: Rudolf Virchow Center of experimental biomedicine / University of Wuerzburg The permanent interplay of protein production and degradation ...

How nerve cells control misfolded proteins

Credit: RUB, Marquard Researchers have identified a protein complex that marks misfolded proteins, stops them from interacting with other proteins ...

Human protein produced in CHO-cells can save donor blood

Researchers from DTU Biosustain have successfully produced mammalian cell lines (CHO) that can produce 1,2 g/L recombinant Alpha-1-antitrypsin proteins with ...

Development of a technology to produce dorsal cortical neurons

A research team led by Dr. Yoichi Kosodo of KBRI, realizing human brain environment using tropical fishCredit: KBRI Korea Brain ...

Spinning-prism microscope helps gather stem cells for regenerative medicine

Researchers based at the University of Tsukuba develop an improved form of microscopy that finds highly effective stem cells by ...

New muscular disease: Myoglobinopathy

An international collaboration led by IDIBELL identifies the first disease caused by a mutation in myoglobinCredit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute ...

New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures

System could provide fine-scale meshes for growing highly uniform cultures of cells with desired properties A new way of making ...

Researchers unlock the biomechanics of how the Ebola virus attaches to its host cell

Lehigh University engineers, working with microbiologists at the University of Iowa, have developed a simple model for virus-host cell interaction ...

Tumor-associated immune cells hinder frontline chemotherapy drug in pancreatic cancer

Researchers have shown how tumor-associated macrophages release compounds that block gemcitabine in the most common type of pancreatic cancerCredit: Leisa ...

New gene potentially involved in metastasis identified

Gene named after Roman goddess Minerva as immune cells get stuck in the fruit fly's headCredit: Daria Siekhaus A new ...

Salmonella could be combated by enhancing body’s natural process

Credit: Dr. Anne-Claire Jacomin/University of Warwick Autophagy - the process of recycling cellular material in the body, can help combat ...

Scientists shine new light on how cells coordinate eye growth in fish

A new study reveals how two types of stem cells in medaka fish work together during eye development, and suggests ...

Harvard researchers’ immune-silent stem cell technology licensed to Sana Biotechnology

Developed through Harvard's Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, innovations could lead to novel cell therapies to treat diseaseCredit: Mary Todd Bergman, Harvard ...

Discovery of life-extension pathway in worms demonstrates new way to study aging