Tag: Cell Biology

Scientists discover a natural food pigment that can distinguish between living and dead cells in cell culturesCredit: Tokyo University of ...

Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamine

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find a mutualistic growth mechanism between a filamentous fungus and a bacterium that allows ...

Novel cell membrane model could be key to uncovering new protein properties

Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman The cell membrane, the wall-like boundary between the cell interior and its outside environment, is primarily made ...

Opening an autophagy window as the apoptosis door starts to close

Credit: Department of Organic Biomaterials,TMDU Tokyo - Many people across the globe are working hard to get the better of ...

Bioelectronic device achieves unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage

Driven by a machine learning algorithm, the closed-loop biohybrid device maintained a set membrane voltage in human stem cells for ...

A new strategy of cell entry for some types of parvoviruses

Researchers at INRS uncover a new parvovirus strategy for reaching the cell nucleusCredit: INRS Researchers at the Institut national de ...

Gruthan Bioscience receives funding to develop a novel class of cholesterol-lowering drugs

Gruthan Bioscience was recently awarded funding to develop a novel class of cholesterol-lowering drugs to treat a rare form of ...

How microbes in a mother’s intestines affect fetal neurodevelopment

In mice, the maternal gut microbiata regulates which genes are activated in the growing brain, UCLA study showsCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA ...

Berry good news — new compound from blueberries could treat inflammatory disorders

Scientists show how a polyphenolic compound derived from blueberry can treat inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: Tokyo University of Science Various plants ...

Alcohol, nicotine mix during pregnancy increases health risk in newborns

Report: Combination increases brain damage and development riskCredit: Houston University of Houston researchers have found that during early pregnancy, the ...

Statins reduce COVID-19 severity, likely by removing cholesterol that virus uses to infect

Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, UC San Diego researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection, while ...

Likely molecular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis are revealed by network biology

These molecular insights may foster effective therapies using existing drugs for patients with COVID-19.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Viral and ...

Faulty transportation of messenger RNA is the culprit in ALS

The lack of protein TDP-43 in two neurodegenerative diseases is shown to prevent neuron growth via failed transport of RNA ...

Decreased protein degradation in cerebellum leads to motor dysfunction

Progress in overcoming spinocerebellar ataxia, an intractable genetic diseaseCredit: Associate Professor Takahiro Seki A research team from Kumamoto University, Japan ...

Don’t sleep on the hypnotic potential of thalidomide

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba demonstrate that the hypnotic and teratogenic effects of thalidomide are separableCredit: University of Tsukuba ...

UB biophysicist to explore molecular mysteries of protein-RNA droplets

The research -- supported by $2 million in NIH funding -- will investigate biophysical processes that impact the function of human ...

Exercise hormone may modulate genes associated with replication of novel coronavirus

Brazilian researchers observed that in uninfected adipocytes, the hormone irisin altered the expression of genes that regulate ACE-2, which encodes ...

Divide and enlarge

Credit: Illustration: Robert Grosse/Ulrike Endesfelder By far the most important process in cell development is how cells divide and then ...

The co-occurrence of cancer driver genes, key to precision medicine

Researchers from the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona develop a system to predict tumour response to ...

Cincinnati Children’s scientists identify hormone that might help treat malabsorption