Starving tumors by blocking glutamine uptake
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA JOLLA, CALIF. - March 19, 2021 - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys ...
Tag: Cell Biology
Chemical cocktail creates new avenues for generating muscle stem cells
The advance could lead to the development of stem cell-based therapies for muscle loss or damage due to injury, age ...
New cancer-fighting immunotherapy enters clinical trials
Credit: von Brünneck / Charité - Joint press release by the MDC and Charité - A new cancer-fighting gene therapy ...
Christmas Island reptile-killer identified
Bacterium responsible for deaths of critically endangered speciesCredit: Parks Australia. Native reptile populations on Christmas Island have been in severe ...
A modified protein appears to trigger lung fibrosis after environmental exposure
Researchers find a role for citrullinated vimentin as a damage-associated molecular pattern molecule, or DAMP, that is generated by lung ...
Cellular Chinese whispers
How translation errors impact phenotypic variabilityCredit: Nivedita Mukherjee The immense diversity in the living world and how it came into ...
The trouble of being tall
Credit: Mogens Trolle The giraffe is a truly puzzling animal. With its exceptional anatomy and suite of evolutionary adaptations, the ...
A deep dive into cells’ RNA reality
New highly sensitive, specific, and multiplexable RNA detection method advances in situ transcriptomics with potential for a range of biomedical ...
Identifying cells to better understand healthy and diseased behavior
Graphical model an advance in common neuroscience bottleneckCredit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech In researching the causes and potential treatments for ...
Genome scalpel invented for industrial microalgae to efficiently turn CO2 into biofuel
Credit: LIU Yang A single-celled alga undergoes genome surgery to remove non-essential parts. This can lead to a most efficient ...
What brings olfactory receptors to the cell surface
"Zip codes" for odor sensors identifiedCredit: Photo: C. Schranner / Leibniz-LSB@TUM A team of scientists led by Dietmar Krautwurst from ...
Stimulating the immune system to fight cancer
Max Planck scientists from Dortmund find immunoregulatory substances with newly developed test systemCredit: @MPI of Molecular Physiology Our immune system ...
Elusive protein complex could hold the key to treating chromosomal disorders
Scientists report on the structural and molecular factors governing the stability of a protein complex involved in DNA repair pathways ...
Scientists shrink pancreatic tumors by starving their cellular ‘neighbors’
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute demonstrated for the first time ...
USC Stem Cell scientists start a buzz around fruit flies in hearing research
Credit: Image by Ismael Fernández-Hernández/Bonaguidi Lab Even though a fruit fly doesn't have ears, it can hear with its antennae. ...
UC-led research looks at alternative to treat eye diseases
Federally funded study says drug delivery for certain common eye diseases could be improvedCredit: University of Cincinnati Getting poked in ...
Study of synapse strength focuses on ‘active zones’
Credit: Littleton Lab/MIT Picower Institute Job descriptions for the thousands of types of neurons in the brain typically include a ...
The bald truth – altered cell divisions cause hair thinning
Credit: Department of Stem Cell Biology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify a novel mechanism underlying hair ...
Mitochondria found to be protected by ketogenesis
Credit: Dr. Yuichiro Arima Ketone bodies are generally an alternative energy source during starvation, but in newborns, ketogenesis is active ...
Stem cells derived from fat show promise as a treatment for mass radiation exposure
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Nuclear power offers an efficient, reliable way to provide energy to large populations - ...
