Tag: Cell Biology

Knowledge could guide development of sustainable production methods for plant-based medicinesCredit: From Flora De Filipinas by Francisco Manuel Blanco in ...

William Reznikoff, other MBL affiliates are named fellows of the AAAS

Credit: University of Chicago News Office WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- William S. Reznikoff, senior research scholar at the Marine Biological ...

Salk Professors Susan Kaech and Alan Saghatelian named 2020 AAAS Fellows

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 24, 2020) Salk Professors Susan Kaech and Alan Saghatelian have been named 2020 Fellows of ...

Mother’s touch lingers in her child’s genes

Credit: WEHI, Australia Mothers leave their mark on their children in many ways - and Australian researchers have discovered a ...

Study: Early, late stages of degenerative diseases are distinct

Two-phase theory applies to diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscle atrophyCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 23, 2020) - Rice ...

Tarantula toxin attacks with molecular stinger

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