Tag: Cell Biology

James Cook University scientists in Australia have found that trees change their anatomy in response to prolonged drought. JCU's Associate ...

Fighting another virus? Blame your parents

Genetics may play a bigger role in the body's disease-fighting ability than scientists previously thought, according to the results from ...

UTSA microbiologist Floyd Wormley elected AAAS Fellow

Credit: UTSA (San Antonio, Jan. 09, 2019) -- Floyd L. Wormley Jr., the Microsoft President's Endowed Professor in the UTSA ...

Mechanism for impaired allergic inflammation in infants may explain hygiene hypothesis

The hygiene hypothesis says increased sanitation in industrialized countries has led to increases in asthmaCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The ...

Capturing chemotherapy drugs before they can cause side effects

Credit: Hee Jeung Oh Although chemotherapy can kill cancer cells very effectively, healthy cells also suffer. If doctors could remove ...

Salk scientist Saket Navlakha receives CAREER Award from NSF

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 8, 2019) Salk scientist Saket Navlakha has received a CAREER award from the National Science ...

Childhood stress of mice affects their offspring behavior

Russian neuroscientists discovered that the stress experienced by mice during their first weeks of life, affects not only them but ...

Researchers uncover new mechanism of gene regulation involved in tumor progression

Ready, set, go for crossing the barrier for transcription!Credit: CRG, Iris Joval Genes contain all the information needed for the ...

Researcher evaluates estrogen as therapy for knee osteoarthritis

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- More than 30 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee, according to the ...

Scientists confirm that chromosomes are formed by stacked layers

Credit: J.R.Daban A new study based on electron microscopy techniques at low temperatures demonstrates that, during mitosis, chromosome DNA is ...

Flies release neuronal brakes to fly longer

A team led by Prof. Gaiti Hasan of NCBS, and her collaborators describe how groups of different neurons connect up ...

Bristol academic awarded prestigious cell biology medal

2019 Hooke MedalCredit: University of Bristol An academic from the University of Bristol's School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine has ...

New CRISPR-based technology developed to control pests with precision-guided genetics

CRISPR-based method sterilizes male insects for population suppression of agricultural pests and disease-carrying mosquitoesCredit: Nikolay Kandul, Akbari Lab, UC San ...

Salk team reveals clues into early development of autism spectrum disorder

Neurons from people with autism exhibit different patterns of growth and develop at a faster rateCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January ...

New key mechanism of epileptic seizures revealed

Russian scientists investigated the changes in the temporal lobe cortex of a rat brain during prolonged epileptic seizures. Despite the ...

Anxiety-depressive disorder changes brain genes activity

Russian neuroscientists discovered that anxiety-depressive disorder in mice is associated with impaired energy metabolism in the brain. The obtained data ...

First-in-human trial of senolytic drugs encouraging

Small pilot study points to feasibility of larger trials in age-related diseases SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- UT Health San ...

Yeast makes ethanol to prevent metabolic overload

Credit: University of Groningen Why do some yeast cells produce ethanol? Scientists have wondered about this apparent waste of resources ...

CytoReason and Pfizer Inc. sign drug discovery collaboration agreement

CytoReason signs collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. to utilize CytoReason's machine learning model of the immune system for drug discovery ...

Scientists call for more diversity in genomic research