Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Giovanni Ciriello (UNIL) Inside the cell, DNA is tightly wrapped around proteins and packed in a complex, 3D structure ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 28, 2019-New strides are being made toward the ex vivo ...

A new study presents new models describing how the adsorption of calcium, barium and strontium ions onto biological membranes may ...

(San Antonio, Jan 28, 2019) - Doctors regularly perform stem cell transplants, also known as bone marrow transplants, to replace ...

Credit: Kobe University A new optical microscope system called SIFOM (Stimulation and Imaging-based Functional Optical Microscopy) can stimulate multiple cells ...

JNCASR and inStem research teams imparted 'lifelike' nature into the chemical amphiphiles to achieve living supramolecular self-assemblyCredit: Subi George ([email protected]) ...

Study in healthy adults tests body's immune responseCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--A Phase 1 clinical trial of investigational vaccines intended to ...

Also leave behind toxic residueCredit: Photo courtesy of Matt Bertone. Total release foggers, commonly known as "bug bombs," are ineffective ...

Biochemists illuminate a key survival mechanism in cellsCredit: Stasevich Lab/Colorado State University Much like our fight-or-flight response, our cells also ...

Reducing abnormal protein accumulation linked to disease may lie in improving regulation of critical cholesterol in neuronsCredit: Thomas Deerinck of ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of the School of Science INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists, growing human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal ganglion cells ...

The synthesis and transport of biological lipids across the mostly water-filled interior of the cell is a longstanding problem in ...

Credit: Kanazawa University Growth factors are ligands that play important roles in the body - they are responsible for tissue ...

Credit: Bjorn Panyella Pedersen, Aarhus University Sugar transport through Sugar Transport Proteins (STP) is unique to plants, and is important ...

The crucial hormone insulin needs help acquiring the right structure. A protein that assists in the process of insulin folding ...

Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum München Patients undergoing long-term treatment with steroids may suffer from metabolic side effects. Researchers at the ...

Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study ...

Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the Carl R. Woese Institute ...

These kidney macrophages reprogram to a developmental state after kidney injury, similar to those in newborn mice.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...

Cells use 'battering ram' to get around cancer drugCredit: Images courtesy of Laura Kelley, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly ...