Tag: Cell Biology

New study from Gene Editing Institute at Delaware's Christiana Care Health System embodies cautious, patient-focused approach to cutting-edge toolCredit: Christiana ...

Harvard's Wyss Institute commences project to identify means to induce a state of suspended animation

High-risk initiative aims to develop 'Time-Tolerant Biostasis Therapeutics' that slow down critical processes in the human body to gain time ...

Communication between neural networks

Credit: Illustration: BCF The brain is organized into a network of specialized networks of nerve cells. For such a brain ...

Salk's Xin Jin receives McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

Salk scientist receives $300,000 for study of how brain learns and memorizes actions, processes which can go awry in diseases ...

Protein police keep the immune system in check

Researchers learn how a key transcription factor helps regulate the immune system and could be critical to understanding autoimmune disease ...

Janelle Ayres awarded $1.8 million by NOMIS Foundation for research on mechanisms to promote health

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 12, 2018) Associate Professor Janelle Ayres has been awarded $1.8 million over two years by ...

An integrated approach to finding new treatments for breast cancer

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Unraveling the complexity of cancer biology can lead to the identification new molecules involved in ...

Buzz! Slap! Ow! Taking the virus out of a mosquito's bite

MU researchers are getting a deeper understanding how mosquito-borne viruses infect the mosquito -- an important step toward eliminating the ...

Novel mechanisms of dengue and Zika virus infections and link to microcephaly

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New insights into how dengue and Zika viruses cause disease reveal shared and virus-specific mechanisms. ...

New insight into stem cell behavior 'highlights therapeutic target for cancer treatment'

Scientists have identified a new therapeutic target for cancer treatment and tissue regeneration -- a protein called Prominin-1. Research led ...

Montana State researcher awarded grant for research of fluorescent proteins

Credit: MSU photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University doctoral student who is working on a way ...

Tumor cells conquer territory from their neighbors using a newly discovered mechanism

Credit: Romain Levayer and Eduardo Moreno Despite decades of cancer research, the early phases of tumour progression that connect the ...

Alzheimer peripheral blood: mRNA expression of amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme

This article by Dr. Prapimpun Wongchitrat et al. is published in Current Alzheimer Research, Volume 15, 14 Issues, 2018 Β-amyloid ...

Septin proteins act as cellular police to identify, imprison and kill 'superbug' Shigella