Discovery shows how tuning the immune system may enhance vaccines and ease disease
A metabolic control pathway that regulates T follicular helper cells offers targets for drugs to stimulate the adaptive immune responseCredit: ...
Tag: Cell Biology
Wolbachia and the paradox of growth regulation
A genetic approach offers new clues to the regulation of Wolbachia proliferation and the effect of over-proliferation on the insect ...
Novel coronavirus infects and replicates in salivary gland cells
A study conducted at the University of São Paulo suggests that tissues specializing in saliva production and secretion serve as ...
Acid sensor discovered in plants
Credit: (Picture: Dorothea Graus / University of Wuerzburg) Climate change is causing increased flooding and prolonged waterlogging in northern Europe, ...
New broadly applicable tool provides insight into fungicide resistance
Credit: Jingyu Peng, Hyunkyu Sang, Tyre J. Proffer, Jacqueline Gleason, Cory A. Outwater, Geunhwa Jung, and George W. Sundin Succinate ...
Relationship between chromosomal instability and senescence revealed in the fly Drosophila
Credit: IRB Barcelona Chromosomal instability is a feature of solid tumours such as carcinoma. Likewise, cellular senescence is a process ...
How an unfolding protein can induce programmed cell death
Credit: Sylvia Germes The death of cells is well regulated. If it occurs too much, it can cause degenerative diseases. ...
Muscles retain positional memory from fetal life
New perspectives on the pathological mechanisms of muscle diseases and regenerative medicine developmentCredit: Associate Professor Yusuke Ono A research collaboration ...
New signaling pathway could shed light on damage repair during brain injury
The study has uncovered a signaling pathway that causes neural cells to enter divisions after damageCredit: Torsten Bossing, University of ...
Study shows laboratory developed protein spikes consistent with COVID-19 virus
Credit: University of Southampton A new international study has found that the key properties of the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 virus ...
Unraveling the mechanisms that create the individualized metabolism in leukemia
Credit: Associate Professor Shinjiro Hino A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has shown that lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), ...
UMass Amherst research pinpoints role of dopamine in songbird’s brain plasticity
Neurotransmitter shown to be a key driver in sensory processingCredit: UMass Amherst Neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have ...
Inside the lungs, a new hope for protection against flu damage
New experimental data pinpoints a molecular component responsible for modulating the damage the flu can wreck on the lungsCredit: Joana ...
Potential drug target for difficult-to-treat breast cancer: RNA-binding proteins
Studies using human cell lines and tumors grown in mice provide early evidence that inhibiting RNA-binding proteins, a previously overlooked ...
How ethane-consuming archaea pick up their favorite dish
Scientists of Bremen sucessfully decoded the structure of the enzyme responsible for ethane fixationCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/ ...
Uncovering the genetic mechanism behind Rett syndrome
Dysfunction in key gene causes neural stem cells to produce more astrocytes than neuronsCredit: Kyushu University/Nakashima Lab Fukuoka, Japan--Medical researchers ...
SARS-CoV-2 replication targets nasal ciliated cells early in COVID-19 infection
The establishment of nasal mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 through a nasal vaccine could be the most efficient way to combat ...
How information beyond the genetic sequence is encoded in plant sperm
Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is passed from parent to offspring in the genetic code, DNA, and epigenetically through ...
Chasing the cells that predict death from severe COVID-19
Gladstone scientists have uncovered T-cell signatures that may help understand why some people succumb to severe COVID-19 while others recoverCredit: ...
Extracellular matrix guides growth and function of epithelial cells
Credit: Johanna Englund Scientists at the University of Helsinki have found an essential factor from the extracellular matrix that regulates ...
