Tag: Cell Biology

February 19, 2019

Credit: Henry et al./Cell Host & Microbe The influenza vaccine may be less effective in the elderly because their B ...

Suicide system in tuberculosis bacteria might hold key to treatment

February 18, 2019

Credit: EMBL Hamburg Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide. In 2017, 10 million people ...

Professional societies unveil consortium on sexual harassment in STEMM

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and 52 other leading academic and professional societies announced the creation the Societies ...

3D protein structure reveals a new mechanism for future anti-cancer drugs

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina reveal a novel binding site for a class of anti-cancer drugs known ...

Spare 10 minutes to make science leap forward

New citizen science project From Diamond Light Source seeks to train AI to identify virus particlesCredit: Diamond Light Source, 2019 ...

The fourth volume of Anti-obesity Drug Discovery and Development is now published

This book is Edited by: Atta-ur-Rahman, M. Iqbal Choudhary, published on: December 14th, 2019. The incidence of obesity among populations ...

Development of Pharmaceutical Agent For The Treatment of Diabetes & Obesity

This book is Edited by: Atta-ur-Rahman, published on: January 18, 2019 The scope of the eBook series covers a range ...

Bentham's latest book explores the subjective science of consciousness

This book is authored by: Paulo Jacomo Negro, published on: Feb. 11, 2019 Readers are introduced to the concept of ...

Patients' own cells could be the key to treating Crohn's disease

A new technique using patients' own modified cells to treat Crohn's disease has been proven to be effective in experiments ...

'Cellular barcoding' reveals how breast cancer spreads

Cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancerCredit: Walter and ...

New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis

Berkeley Lab research will shed light on the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar, helping scientists engineer ...

Improved RNA data visualization method gets to the bigger picture faster

Like going from a pinhole camera to a Polaroid, a significant mathematical update to the formula for a popular bioinformatics ...

Researchers discover a weakness in a rare cancer that could be exploited with drugs

Credit: Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics/The Rockefeller University Cancer cells are, in some respects, impressive: They can grow relentlessly, ...

Cracking colibactin's code

Study examines how compound damaged DNA to understand its connection to cancer For more than a decade, scientists have worked ...

Can we repair the brain? The promise of stem cell technologies for treating parkinson's disease

Despite challenges, new advances in stem cell biology and genetic engineering show potential for better cell replacement therapies, say experts ...

'Lack of cleaning' in brain cells is central to Alzheimer's disease

Scientists around the world are still struggling to understand Alzheimer's better in order to be able to treat and potentially ...

In zebrafish eggs, most rapidly growing cell inhibits neighbors through mechanical signals

Scientists at IST Austria discover new mechanism for lateral inhibition of cells- Study published in CellCredit: Peng Xia "The winner ...

Animal venoms are sources in the search for new medicines

The study of natural toxins and their derivatives may help in the development of medicines to treat diseases like cancer ...

Immunological scarring from coeliac disease

Coeliac disease can cause irreversible changes to immune cells Immune cells in the bowel of people who suffer with coeliac ...

Human cells can change job to fight diabetes