Tag: Cell Biology

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

Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. SALT LAKE CITY - An overactive defense response may ...

Existing drugs can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking cells

Researchers evaluate how the new coronavirus rewires human proteins for its own replication, and identify several antiviral drugs ready for ...

Newly designed ligands for a catalytic reaction to synthesize drugs and useful compounds

Scientists spur advances in the field of drug development by designing a novel strategy to generate useful compoundsCredit: Gwangju Institute ...

A new mechanism of toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by the 3D structure of Aβ protein

June 26, 2020

Credit: Benjamin Bardiaux. The brains of millions of people suffering from Alzheimer´s disease (AD) are slowly and inescapably being depleted ...

Function-based sequencing technique permits analysis of just a single bacteria cell

June 26, 2020

Credit: XU Teng A new function-based sequencing technique using optical tweezers and taking advantage of the properties of gravity is letting ...

Key signaling pathway in the pathogenesis of Paget’s disease identified

June 26, 2020

New study finds use of topical cream can alleviate skin symptomsCredit: UCI School of Biological Sciences Irvine, Calif., June. 25, ...

Scientists devise new ‘bar code’ method to identify critical cell types in the brain

Credit: Valdez Lab / Center for Translational Neuroscience / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the brain is composed of ...

Study reveals key finding about microbiome of anticancer compound-producing marine invertebrate

Credit: Bill Baker, USF Could the cure for melanoma - the most dangerous type of skin cancer - be a ...

X-rays size up protein structure at the ‘heart’ of COVID-19 virus

Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Argonne ...

USask researchers to develop saliva-based COVID-19 home testing kit

Credit: University of Saskatchewan/David Stobbe University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers are part of two COVID-19-related projects awarded major federal funding ...

Researchers find best way to treat children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda ...

Dynamics of DNA replication revealed at the nanoscale

New study using super resolution technology gives new insight into a poorly understood area of DNA replicationCredit: University of Technology ...

Why bacterial toxins are ‘fascinating machines of death’

Research finds mechanism by which bacterial toxis evolve ability to cause new illnessesCredit: Mikko Taipale, Roman Melnyk, Jean-Philippe Julien The ...

The tug-of-war at the heart of cellular symmetry

May the forces be within your cellsCredit: Kyoto University/Makito Miyazaki Japan -- Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental properties of nature. ...

Gold nanoparticles to save neurons from cell death

Published on ACS Nano, journal of the American Chemical Society, the study opens important perspectives for treatment of diseases such ...

Novel function of platelets in tumor blood vessels found