Tag: Cell Biology

July 10, 2020

A team of researchers led by Osaka University find that adiponectin, a hormone derived from fat cells, improves the efficacy ...

A new role for a tiny linker in transmembrane ion channels

UMass Amherst, Washington University team reveals new mode of channel regulationCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In the molecular-level world ...

Biologists trace plants’ steady mitochondrial genomes to a gene found in viruses, bacteria

Presence of MSH1 gene in plants offers clue for why animal mitochondrial genomes tend to mutateCredit: Dan Sloan/Colorado State University ...

A complex gene program initiates brain changes in response to cocaine

This work is a step forward in understanding early molecular changes that influence the development of addiction, and may have ...

Expansion stress enhances growth and migration of breast cancer cells

This study was done in mice and with a novel, tissue-engineered, three-dimensional breast cancer mimetic systemCredit: UAB Expansion stress can ...

Dissecting fruit flies’ varying responses to life-extension diet

Study may help explain how genes and other factors influence an individual's response to restricting caloriesCredit: Alice C. Gray Changes ...

Bats offer clues to treating COVID-19

To combat COVID-19, we need to regulate our immune systems to resemble those of batsCredit: Getty Images photo Bats are ...

Surprisingly many peculiar long introns found in brain genes

Credit: MIPT Press Office In a recent study of genes involved in brain functioning, their previously unknown features have been ...

OPTN-ATG9 interaction accelerates autophagic degradation of ubiquitin-labeled mitochondria

Credit: TMiMS Researchers at TMIMS have revealed that PINK1 (a serine/threonine kinase) and Parkin (a ubiquitin ligating enzyme: E3) work ...

New clues from fruit flies about the critical role of sex hormones in stem cell control

Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute and DKFZ In one of the first studies addressing the role of sex hormones' impact on ...

Temple scientists identify key factor regulating abnormal heart growth

Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - The human heart is like a sponge, able to expand and grow, ...

Study reveals how bacteria build essential carbon-fixing machinery

Credit: Luning Liu Scientists from the University of Liverpool have revealed new insight into how cyanobacteria construct the organelles that ...

Fluorescent peptide nanoparticles, in every color of the rainbow

Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c08259 The discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP), which is ...

Adipose-derived stem cells considerably improve fat graft retention in breast augmentation

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Results of a clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine indicates that ...

The CNIO creates a collaborative platform to streamline brain metastasis research

Credit: CNIO Science is collaborative by nature, since scientific knowledge only advances, step by step, through combined efforts and findings. ...

Virginia Tech researchers developing new strategy to thwart Alzheimer’s

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientist earns $2.8 million grant to study cerebrovascular changes during healthy and Alzheimer's agingCredit: Virginia Tech ...

Gut Piezo1 regulates gut and bone homeostasis via RNA sensing.

Credit: Kenta Maruyama In a new study published in Cell, "RNA sensing by gut Piezo1 is essential for systemic serotonin ...

Protein linked to cancer acts as a viscous glue in cell division

Research reveals role unusual quantities of protein PRC1 plays in genetic errorsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An over-abundance ...

A novel active photonic wireless system to power medical implants

Researchers in Korea have now developed a new method to power medical implants using an active photonic wireless systemCredit: Gwangju ...

Machine learning helps grow artificial organs