Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Illustration by Patrick van der Wel and Mingyue Li Cytochrome c is a small enzyme that plays an important ...

What makes a cell turn cancerous?

CHLA researcher receives $1.6M grant to study cellular and genetic changes that underlie retinoblastomaCredit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Retinoblastoma is ...

Engineering living ‘scaffolds’ for building materials

Researchers at Berkeley Lab take cues from nature to form living materials with unprecedented control and versatilityCredit: Berkeley Lab When ...

Researchers find epigenetic loss that changes how cells obtain energy from cancer

Cheap energy for the tumor cellCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It has been known for decades that cancer cells have an ...

Coveted award underscores the importance of protein folding for cellular heath

Award ceremony for the 2019 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in the Paulskirche, Frankfurt FRANKFURT am MAIN. Franz-Ulrich Hartl ...

Dorothee Dormann receives award for research on causes of neurodegenerative diseases

The 2019 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers FRANKFURT am MAIN. Dr. Dorothee Dormann from the Biomedical ...

Research paves the way for next generation of optical tweezers

Credit: David Phillips / University of Exeter Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique that could pave the way for ...

Speed limit on DNA-making sets pace for life’s first steps

Credit: Images courtesy Stanislav Y. Shvartsman Fruit flies make for stingy mothers, imparting only a portion of the genetic building ...

Rice U. study highlights danger of vitamin B12 deficiency

Researchers finds first direct link between low-B12 diet, increased risk of infectionCredit: Natasha Kirienko/Rice University HOUSTON -- (March 13, 2019) ...

Antibody-drug conjugate shows efficacy against cell surface protein in neuroblastoma

CHOP researchers: This first-in-class immunotherapeutic approach could spawn new treatment options for neuroblastoma and other high-mortality childhood cancersCredit: Children's Hospital ...

Preclinical data shows combination immunotherapy could stop liver cancer growth

Even as overall cancer incidence and mortality decrease in the United States, the number of people diagnosed with liver cancer ...

Stress hormones promote breast cancer metastasis

It has long been thought that stress contributes to cancer progression. Scientists from the University of Basel and the University ...

How the heart sends an SOS signal to bone marrow cells after a heart attack

In the SOS response, the bone marrow releases reparative progenitor cells to try to heal the heart.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...

Discovery of how organs form helps researchers to develop future diabetes treatments