Tag: Cell Biology

Nanoparticle delivery offers hope to those with peripheral artery diseaseCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineer is ...

Sewage-handling robots help predict COVID-19 outbreaks in San Diego

Automated process helps test city sewage for SARS-CoV-2, allowing researchers to forecast the region's caseload one to two weeks ahead ...

New form of symbiosis discovered

Energy-providing bacterial endosymbiont enables its unicellular eukaryotic host to breathe nitrate, demonstrating that unicellular eukaryotes may acquire endosymbionts to complement ...

Key steps discovered in production of critical immune cell

Credit: Courtesy of WEHI WEHI researchers have uncovered a process cells use to fight off infection and cancer that could ...

A Thousand Brains introduces a novel theory of intelligence

A new book by Jeff Hawkins offers implications for AI and for the future of humanity - with foreword by ...

Drug target could fight Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: The University of Queensland Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease are in the firing line after researchers ...

uOttawa in studies investigating why COVID-19 devastation of long-term care residents

Government of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force funds $3.5 million University of Ottawa, Bruyère collaboration to research the immune response ...

Funding the future of cancer research

PICI awards nearly $3 million to six early career researchersCredit: Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy SAN FRANCISCO - From improving ...

Nanoparticle-delivered COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in preclinical studies

New Cleveland Clinic-led research published in mBioCredit: Cleveland Clinic CLEVELAND - Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Global Center for Pathogen Research ...

Optimizing disinfection to prevent spread of antibiotic resistance in wastewater

Scientists map the degradation of antibiotic resistance gene mecA by common disinfectants to find ways to minimize the spread of ...

Bitter receptor involved in anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol?

Human gum cells as a test system for investigating interactions between resveratrol, bitter receptors and the release of inflammatory markersCredit: ...

Using stimuli-responsive biomaterials to understand heart development, disease

Striving for creation of a synthetic platform to mimic natural progression of heart developmentCredit: Zhen Ma WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 ...

A mechanism by which cells build ‘mini-muscles’ underneath their nucleus identified

Researchers identified a mechanism by which cells build 'mini-muscles' underneath their nucleusCredit: Jaakko Lehtomäki Research groups at the University of ...

Potential drug for Alzheimer’s disease prevention found safe and effective in animals