Tag: Cell Biology

New work could enable scientists to engineer the metabolism of organisms to be more resilient and productive in a range ...

Rare congenital heart defect rescued by protease inhibition

Small molecule restores normal heart development in model organism with genetic disorderCredit: Greenwood Genetic Center Greenwood, SC (October 15, 2020) ...

Classic optical illusion leads to the discovery of critical neurons in zebrafish.

Credit: © Fumi Kubo at National Institute of Genetics (NIG) By exposing larval zebrafish to a well-known optical illusion, researchers ...

Was Hong Kong once a coral reef paradise?

HKU researchers reveal the historic range and diversity of corals in the Greater Bay area for the last 5,000 yearsCredit: ...

Repurposing drugs for a pan-coronavirus treatment

Drug targets common across three coronavirus strains could be used for rapid treatment response against emerging coronavirus strainsCredit: Image: Svenja ...

Small RNA as a central player in infections

Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world's ...

An alternative to animal experiments

New applications for organoids from human intestinal tissueCredit: E. Rath / TUM The human intestine is vital for both digestion ...

NYUAD study finds key protein related to the disease-causing malformation of fat tissue

This discovery paves the way for future research into treatment of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesityCredit: NYU Abu ...

Goethe University partner in US$ 7.2 million research project on Parkinson’s disease

Three-year German-American project studies biology of LRRK2Credit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt In the early 2000s, it was discovered ...

FAU researchers receive $1.3 million NIH grant for stem cell research

FAU Schmidt College of Medicine scientists will analyze stem cell activation with a focus on age-related and degenerative diseasesCredit: Alex ...

Finding its way to the top: How a cell surface receptor reaches its destination

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University Dr. Guangyu Wu is dissecting the molecular homing that enables a nascent protein ...

To make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze

Study finds that compressing cells, and crowding their contents, can coax them to grow and divideCredit: Yiwei Li The closer ...

Technique to recover lost single-cell RNA-sequencing information

Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cellsCredit: MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Sequencing ...

Bacterial toxin with healing effect

Research team from University of Jena (Germany) uncovers that a toxic substance found in Staphylococcus aureus stimulates tissue regenerationCredit: Jens ...

Scientists replicated self-cleaning anti-reflective coating of insects’ eyes

Credit: Mikhail Kryuchkov, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Department of Pharmacology ...

Getting the full scope

Pitt's Takashi K-Y Kozai will use a $3M NIH award to harness state-of-the-art imaging and guide the use of neural ...

Unraveling the network of molecules that influence COVID-19 severity

Credit: Morgridge Institute for Research While most COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic or mild, severe complications associated with acute respiratory distress ...

Researchers discover a cell type responsible for cardiac repair after infarction

The researcher of the University of Malaga Adrián Ruiz-Villalba leads an international study that has revealed the molecular mechanisms involved ...

Study first to tally biomass from oceanic plastic debris using visualization method

Scientists obtain quantitative number for biomass -- First estimate of its kindCredit: Shiye Zhao, Ph.D. Trillions of plastic debris fragments ...

A new approach to analyzing the morphology of dendritic spines