Tag: Cell Biology

This article by Dr. Felix-Martin Werner and Prof. Rafael Coveñas is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2021Credit: Dr. Felix-Martin Werner, ...

Salk Professors Satchin Panda and Tatyana Sharpee honored with endowed chairs

Credit: Salk Institute. LA JOLLA--(February 25, 2021) Professors Satchin Panda and Tatyana Sharpee have both been recognized for their contributions ...

New signaling pathway in neurons

Credit: (Picture: Changhe Ji / University of Würzburg) Neurodegenerative diseases, such as various forms of senile dementia or amyotrophic lateral ...

NIH awards UC San Diego $33 million for five COVID-19 diagnostic projects

Efforts range from managing a large data center to expanding testing in disadvantaged communitiesCredit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego University of ...

Why some coronavirus strains are more infectious than others

The coronaviruses that cause SARS and COVID-19 have spike proteins that move into 'active' and 'inactive' positions, and new research ...

UM scientists achieve breakthrough in culturing corals and sea anemones cells

Credit: Mike Connelly MIAMI--Researchers have perfected the recipe for keeping sea anemone and coral cells alive in a petri dish ...

‘Miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics

Researchers prove they can engineer botulinum toxin proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential ...

A gearbox for tumor cell identity changes

Credit: Gargiulo Lab, MDC Cancer cells can experience stress. They have to contend with attacks by the immune system or ...

Sulfur: the consequences

How sulfur metabolism may have paved the way for the evolution of multicellularityCredit: © MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, B. ...

Cancer research to gain from identification of 300 proteins that regulate cell division

Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology/SciLifeLab With the hope of contributing to the fight against cancer, researchers in Sweden have ...

Human lung and brain organoids respond differently to SARS-CoV-2 infection in lab tests

Findings may help explain the wide variety in COVID-19 symptoms and aid search for therapiesCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences ...

David Kaplan elected to National Academy of Engineering

Tufts biomedical engineer and researcher is recognized for his contributions to silk-based materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicineCredit: Alonso ...

Dresden scientists help setting new standards for cutting-edge genetic research

Credit: © DKFZ Heidelberg Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and others... The "omics" technologies keep revolutionizing medicine and biomedical sciences. They ...

Researchers use new tool to study stress in root-colonizing bacteria