Tag: Cell Biology

This research offers fundamental insights about sensory thalamic subnetworks and will enable powerful new strategies to probe behavioral and perceptual ...

Highly stable amyloid protein aggregates may help plant seeds last longer

Credit: Dr. Pavel Zykin Highly stable polymeric "amyloid" proteins, best known for their role in Alzheimer's disease, have been mostly ...

The first mouse model of human pancreas cancer subtypes

Credit: Miyabayashi/Tuveson lab, CSHL Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have created the first mouse model of pancreatic cancer ...

New platform enables long-term tracking of stem cell-derived tissues after transplantation

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - A new platform reported on today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) will enable ...

Researchers simulate, assess damage to brain cells caused by bubbles during head trauma

Credit: Illustration by Mica Post AMES, Iowa - Say there's a bomb attack on a military base. A few of ...

Researcher receives $5M grant to further cancer studies

The grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will support Dr. Tanmay Lele's research on cancer and ...

Novel ‘on-off’ switch discovered in plant defenses

Protective mechanism paves the way to improved plant disease resistance and food stabilityCredit: Huffaker Lab, UC San Diego To ensure ...

Calcium channel subunits play a major role in autistic disorders

Appropriate fine-tuning of calcium channel subunits is essential for ensuring a physiological balance between inhibitory and excitatory nerve cellsCredit: ill./©: ...

Cellular cleanup! Atg40 folds the endoplasmic reticulum to facilitate its autophagy

Credit: Nature Communications, Tokyo Tech The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important part of eukaryotic cells (the type of cells ...

How neurons reshape inside body fat to boost its calorie-burning capacity

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at The Rockefeller University There's no doubt that you can lose fat by eating less ...

Mix and match: New 3D cell culture model replicates fibrotic elements of pancreatic cancer

‘Seeing’ and ‘manipulating’ functions of living cells

Aiming to create 'God's eye' and 'God's hand' to solve the mystery of lifeCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ...

Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announce 2020 Laureates

America's largest unrestricted scientific prize goes to promising young researchersCredit: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, July 22, 2020 ...

Cells communicate by doing the ‘wave’

Kyoto University reverse engineers cellular mechano-chemical feedback systemCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Cells work around the clock to deliver, ...

Junk DNA might be really, really useful for biocomputing

Flipon-based ComputersCredit: Alan Herbert Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed? What if ...

Site-directed mutagenesis in wheat via haploid induction by maize

Credit: IPK A new study (Budhagatapalli et al., 2020), which has recently been published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal, demonstrates ...

Working toward freeze-drying synthetic platelets

Newest synthetic platelet research at Case Western Reserve University funded by $3.8 million U.S. Dept. of Defense grant, seeks to ...

Mutated cells need to be near each other to kickstart cancer

Single-cell imaging of the very first stages of cancer recreated in a mouse organoid model reveals a key factor that ...

How the regulator is regulated — Insight into immune-related protein holds therapeutic value

Scientists unravel how the immune checkpoint protein PD-L2 is regulated, which has potential implications in immune therapyCredit: Tokyo University of ...

Ultra-small, parasitic bacteria found in groundwater, moose — and you