Tag: Cell Biology

This approach can make it possible to produce biosensors for applications such as the detection of mercury, cholera or the ...

Vape aerosol and gene expression in human lung tissue compared to cigarette sm

Scientific Digital Communications Editor Arran Frood details the latest research findings at Imperial Brands.Credit: Imperial Brands March 19, 2021, Bristol, ...

Three-dimensional imaging provides valuable insight to immune responses

A new imaging technique is shining a light on immune responses and setting the scene for enhancing immune memory to ...

New discoveries on deadly fungus – might be a key for treatment

Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper, University of Jena Aspergillus fumigatus kills as many people as malaria and tuberculosis, but is less known. ...

CU cancer researcher wins two awards to study drug-resistant cancer cells

University of Colorado Boulder researcher Sabrina L. Spencer, PhD., recently won the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award (from the Damon Runyon ...

Starving tumors by blocking glutamine uptake

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA JOLLA, CALIF. - March 19, 2021 - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys ...

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