Tag: Cell Biology

Venom immobilizes prey by interfering with sodium channels that generate electrical signals in the animal's nerve cellsCredit: Alice C. Gray ...

Recording the symphony of cellular signals that drive biology

Credit: C. Linghu, S. Johnson et al./Cell 2020 A new imaging technology lets scientists spy on the flurry of messages ...

New targeted therapy blocks metabolism in brain cancer cells with genetic vulnerability

Preclinical study shows early activity of enolase inhibitors in cancer cells with genetic loss of ENO1Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center ...

Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?

Researchers make functional membraneless "protocells" out of short polymersCredit: Fatma Pir Cakmak, Penn State Protocell compartments used as models for ...

Quantum X-ray microscope underway at Brookhaven Lab

Researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source II will use the quantum properties of x-rays to "ghost image" biomoleculesCredit: Brookhaven ...

Breakthrough in studying the enzyme that ultimately produces fish odour syndrome

Credit: Credit: University of Warwick The condition trimethylaminuria, is more commonly known as fish odour syndrome, it currently has no ...

Understanding ion channel inhibition to open doors in drug discovery

Credit: Paper authors Scientists have discovered how drug-like small molecules can regulate the activity of therapeutically relevant ion channels - ...

After more than a decade, ChIP-seq may be quantitative after all

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 20, 2020) -- For more than a decade, scientists studying ...

Adipose tissue may be the source of inflammatory factors that aggravate COVID-19

Preliminary results of patient tissue analysis show that the virus infects adipocytes and alters the quantity of signaling molecules released ...

TTUHSC scientist takes next step in search for bone disease treatment

Das study indicates KLF2 induction in DPSCs can promote osteoblastCredit: TTUHSC For more than a decade, Hiranmoy Das, Ph.D., has ...

Scientists investigate solutions for building cell membrane defense against COVID-19

Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman The cell membrane is the cell's outermost line of defense against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus responsible for ...

Biofriendly protocells pump up blood vessels

Credit: Nature Chemistry (2020). An international team comprising researchers from the University of Bristol, and Hunan and Central South Universities ...

Alternative gene control mechanism based on organization of DNA within nucleus

Genes that give plant nucleus its shape discovered, also regulate copper toleranceCredit: Image by Yuki Sakamoto, CC BY, first published ...

T-cell abnormalities in severe COVID-19 cases

Credit: Associate Professor Masahiro Ono There is an idea within the coronavirus research field that there is some kind of ...

Dormant threat: Abnormal proteins unleash latent toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases

A new mechanism of action by which misfolded proteins cause indirect damage to neuronsCredit: DGIST Thanks to modern medicine, humans ...

Near-infrared probe decodes telomere dynamics

A repetitive DNA sequence that causes health risks when it malfunctions can now be watched inside living cells using a ...

University of Göttingen receives another Alexander von Humboldt professorship

Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken nominated for top level research at the Cluster of Excellence MBExCCredit: sample by Julie Jurgens, Elizabeth ...

Insights on a mechanism to stop COVID-19 replication

Just published the study of the Politecnico di Milano in the New Journal of ChemistryCredit: Politecnico di Milano Stopping the ...

Researchers peer inside deadly pathogen’s burglary kit

Structural insights about a deadly bacterium's toolbox point to ways to block itCredit: Maria Schumacher Lab, Duke Biochemistry DURHAM, N.C. ...

Bacteria convince their squid host to create a less hostile work environment