Vaping vs. smoking: Impact on cells compared
How does vaping affect cells, and can it cause DNA damage?Credit: Toxys Imperial Brands scientists have utilised Toxys' ToxTracker suite ...
Tag: Cell Biology
To nodulate or not? Uncovering how nitrate regulates gene expression in legumes
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that nitrate-induced control of root nodule formation results from varying DNA-binding properties of ...
Popeye with a whiff of rotten eggs
Credit: Huimin Ye An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Professor Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna and ...
COVID-19 causes ‘unexpected’ cellular response in the lungs, research finds
Credit: Purdue University photo/ Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New insights into the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infections could ...
New method offers insights into tension-sensitivity of potassium channels
Experiments with a novel time-lapse system show that potassium channel exhibit hysteresis in their responses to membrane tensionCredit: Masayuki Iwamoto ...
How to tame a restless genome
Credit: Ipsaro/Joshua-Tor lab, CSHL/2021 Short pieces of DNA--jumping genes--can bounce from one place to another in our genomes. When too ...
‘Bug brain soup’ expands menu for scientists studying animal brains
By mashing up brains from various insect species, neuroscientists at the University of Arizona were able to count the neurons ...
Light shed on the coordination of neural stem cell activation
Credit: © Nicolas Dray, Laure Mancini and Laure Bally-Cuif, Institut Pasteur In all adult vertebrates, neural stem cells can be ...
Artificial Intelligence could ‘crack the language of cancer and Alzheimer’s’
Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can 'predict' the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, ...
Scientists identify new differences between the sexes in age-related changes to brain stem cells
Credit: Image credit: Yue Wang, Xiuli Zhao, and Eric Wait. Ageing and age-related brain disease do not affect women and ...
USC Stem Cell study explores ‘synthetic’ embryonic development with $2.5 million NIH grant
Credit: Chris Shinn Whether in an earthworm or a human being, developmental processes are driven by complex networks of genetically-encoded ...
UofL biologists create better method to culture cells for testing drug toxicity
Research featured on cover of American Journal of Physiology-Cell PhysiologyCredit: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When a ...
Parkinson’s, cancer, type 2 diabetes share a key element that drives disease
Enzyme with central role in cancer and type 2 diabetes also activates "clean-up" protein in Parkinson'sCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April ...
Junctions between three cells serve as gateways for the transport of substances
Researchers at the University of Münster discover how cell contacts are dynamically remodelled during egg development in fruit flies / ...
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