Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: (Picture: Dorothea Graus / University of Wuerzburg) Climate change is causing increased flooding and prolonged waterlogging in northern Europe, ...

New broadly applicable tool provides insight into fungicide resistance

Credit: Jingyu Peng, Hyunkyu Sang, Tyre J. Proffer, Jacqueline Gleason, Cory A. Outwater, Geunhwa Jung, and George W. Sundin Succinate ...

Relationship between chromosomal instability and senescence revealed in the fly Drosophila

Credit: IRB Barcelona Chromosomal instability is a feature of solid tumours such as carcinoma. Likewise, cellular senescence is a process ...

How an unfolding protein can induce programmed cell death

Credit: Sylvia Germes The death of cells is well regulated. If it occurs too much, it can cause degenerative diseases. ...

Muscles retain positional memory from fetal life

New perspectives on the pathological mechanisms of muscle diseases and regenerative medicine developmentCredit: Associate Professor Yusuke Ono A research collaboration ...

New signaling pathway could shed light on damage repair during brain injury

The study has uncovered a signaling pathway that causes neural cells to enter divisions after damageCredit: Torsten Bossing, University of ...

Study shows laboratory developed protein spikes consistent with COVID-19 virus

Credit: University of Southampton A new international study has found that the key properties of the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 virus ...

Unraveling the mechanisms that create the individualized metabolism in leukemia

Credit: Associate Professor Shinjiro Hino A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has shown that lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), ...

UMass Amherst research pinpoints role of dopamine in songbird’s brain plasticity

Neurotransmitter shown to be a key driver in sensory processingCredit: UMass Amherst Neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have ...

Inside the lungs, a new hope for protection against flu damage

New experimental data pinpoints a molecular component responsible for modulating the damage the flu can wreck on the lungsCredit: Joana ...

Potential drug target for difficult-to-treat breast cancer: RNA-binding proteins

Studies using human cell lines and tumors grown in mice provide early evidence that inhibiting RNA-binding proteins, a previously overlooked ...

How ethane-consuming archaea pick up their favorite dish

Scientists of Bremen sucessfully decoded the structure of the enzyme responsible for ethane fixationCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/ ...

Uncovering the genetic mechanism behind Rett syndrome

Dysfunction in key gene causes neural stem cells to produce more astrocytes than neuronsCredit: Kyushu University/Nakashima Lab Fukuoka, Japan--Medical researchers ...

SARS-CoV-2 replication targets nasal ciliated cells early in COVID-19 infection