Tag: Cell Biology

March 6, 2019

University of Tsukuba researchers develop high-throughput screening for factors promoting cardiac reprogramming, and identify a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug as one ...

Gut microbiota helps to maintain core body temperature under cold exposure

March 6, 2019

Credit: QI Lei The gut microbiome has been shown to have diverse impacts on human and animal physiology and health. ...

MBL scientists identify gene partnerships that promote spinal cord regeneration

March 6, 2019

Credit: Dee Sullivan WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Researchers are one step closer to solving the mystery of why some vertebrates ...

Grant allows researcher to study ‘scissor-like’ protein in cancers

Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY -- Much like a mechanic fixing a car, a cell biologist must understand how the ...

UMaine-led team discovers protein, lipid connection that could aid new influenza therapies

The connection between an influenza virus surface protein and a host cell lipid has been discovered by researchers at the ...

Molecular puzzle reveals unknown stages of fetal development

By applying gene analysis to individual cells from early mouse embryos, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered previously ...

A new way to map cell regulatory networks

Tool reduces material needed to ID transcription factors regulating gene expressionCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Faster results. Lower costs. Fewer cells. A ...

Tissue model reveals how RNA will act on the liver

Studies could speed the development of new treatments for liver disease CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Novel therapies based on a process ...

Creating more potent cancer therapy using ‘theranostics’

The therapy plus diagnostics -- theranostics -- a City of Hope scientist and his peers developed has the potential to ...

TIGER mouse debuts as model for neurological ailments

Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina - New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a ...

Are mosaic embryos the ‘dark horse’ of IVF?

Study in nonhuman primates gives new hope to people seeking infertility treatment; abnormal embryos can result in successful in vitro ...

Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order

Credit: Video courtesy of Saverio Spagnolie MADISON, Wis. -- Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an ...

Renal reabsorption in living devices

3D bioprinted, vascularized proximal tubules mimic the human kidney's reabsorption functionsCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Every ...

Diabetes impairs multipotent stromal cell antibacterial activity

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 4, 2019-A new study reveals that the multipotent stromal cells ...

Red tide rolling: Harmful algae found to flourish in both high-, low-CO2 environments

Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The algae responsible for Florida's toxic red tides may be more ...

Boyce Thompson Institute researchers uncover new structures at plant-fungal interface

New discovery could eventually help reduce the use of fertilizer in agricultureCredit: Jotham Austin II and R. Howard Berg For ...

Gotcha! Scientists fingerprint proteins using their vibrations

Researchers show that they can quickly measure a protein's microscopic movements, opening new possibilities in medical researchCredit: Credit: Mengyang Xu, ...

Researchers develop mini kidneys from urine cells

New publication in Nature BiotechnologyCredit: Anne Rios (Princess Maxima Centre) for Nature Biotechnology Scientists from Utrecht University, University Medical Center ...

Researchers find window of opportunity for treatment of early cystic fibrosis lung infections

New research from DTU Biosustain and Rigshospitalet suggests that disease-causing microbes in young cystic fibrosis (CF) patients change rapidly within ...

Gut immune cells play by their own rules