Tag: Cell Biology

Credit: Iris Maurer Why do we age? What exactly is happening in our bodies? And can we do anything about ...

The combination of four drugs at low doses is more effective in the treatment of a lu

Credit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) Inhibit the specific activity of a protein affected by a mutation using high doses ...

How stress affects bone marrow

Credit: Department of Biodefense Research, Medical Research Institute, TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify the protein ...

The mystery of pollen sterility and its reversion in pigeon pea revealed in a new study

Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 This work has been published in The Plant Genome very recently. This study has analyzed one ...

Science snapshots July 2020

Microbial behavior, plant engineering, triple-pane windows, ferroelectricityCredit: Michal Hammel/Berkeley Lab Study Gains New Insight Into Bacterial DNA Packing By Julie ...

NCCN: What people with cancer and their caregivers need to know about CAR T-cell therapy

National Comprehensive Cancer Network's new NCCN Guidelines for Patients explain how to recognize and manage immunotherapy-related toxicities, help prepare patients ...

Identified the genetic landscape of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms

Credit: Laura Palomo Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) is a group of rare malignancies with overlapping features from myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and ...

High-end microscopy refined

Credit: (Picture: Working groups Benavente and Sauer / University of Wuerzburg) The synaptonemal complex is a ladder-like cell structure that ...

Designing anew: Radical COVID-19 drug development approach shows promise

University of Washington's Baker Lab uses de novo computational design on TACC systems to create new therapeuticsCredit: Ian C Haydon ...

Discovery of new step in how brain cells work could lead to new therapies for epilepsy

Credit: Lafayette Photography Dublin, Tuesday, 30 June 2020: Researchers have identified a critical new step in how brain cells function ...

A vaccine targeting aged cells mitigates metabolic disorders in obese mice

Researchers from Osaka University develop a novel vaccine that removes senescent immune cells from the body to improve obesity-induced metabolic ...

Salk researchers accelerate, expand COVID-19 research

Salk scientists tackle COVID-19 pandemic with innovative research projects on immunity, vaccine development, viral imaging and moreCredit: Salk Institute LA ...

Implants: Can special coatings reduce complications after implant surgery?

Credit: Hala Al Khoury / Uni Halle New coatings on implants could help make them more compatible. Researchers at the ...

Fat cells found to play a central role in renal failure-associated cardiomyopathy

Fat cells found to play a central role in renal failure-associated cardiomyopathy. HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - New research from a team ...

Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal

Credit: Tania Lopez-Hernandez Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, ...

Team dramatically reduces image analysis times using deep learning, other approaches

Credit: Harshad Vishwasrao and Damian Dalle Nogare, NIH WOODS HOLE, Mass. - A picture is worth a thousand words -but ...

Microbiome confers resistance to cholera

Not everyone exposed to infectious diarrhea-causing bacteria gets sickCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cholera can kill within hours ...

Plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease

Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease's onset, a new experimental and computational ...

New evidence for how blood clots may form in very ill COVID-19 patients

Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/CSHL, 2020 Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating ...

Clues to COVID-19 complications come from NET-like inflammatory response