Tag: Cell Biology

May 15, 2020

Innovative virus research may save wheat and other cropsCredit: Ayala Rao/UCR UC Riverside scientists have solved a 20-year-old genetics puzzle ...

New book on heart development and disease from CSHLPress

Credit: Illustration kindly provided by Timothy J. Mohun. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced ...

Malaria runs like clockwork; so does the parasite that causes the disease

Researchers discover source of parasite's (P. falciparum) rhythmic life cycleCredit: Florida Atlantic University In humans, malaria is caused by the ...

New book on Cell Survival and Cell Death from CSHLPress

Credit: Illustration created by Giovanni Luchetti, Genentech.) Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced the ...

How plants forget

New work uncovers how a specific epigenetic mark is reset in spermCredit: Michael Borg Although they do it differently than ...

Cancer cells’ growth amid crowding reveals nuanced role for known oncogene

Cell-to-cell contact should stall proliferation, but cancer misses the messageCredit: Kissil Lab at Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla.--MAY 14, 2020--Like subway ...

Frankfurt researchers discover potential targets for COVID-19 therapy

Cell culture model: several compounds stop SARS-CoV-2 virusCredit: University Hospital Frankfurt A team of biochemists and virologists at Goethe University ...

Virus protein discovery reveals new plant-animal class of cell division disruptors

Credit: IGDB Viruses are ubiquitous pathogens that cause severe infectious diseases in both humans and agricultural crops. As most viruses ...

Missing component of innate immune signaling identified

Credit: © Ella Maru Studio / CeMM How cells recognize pathogens and alert the immune system swiftly is a fundamental ...

A deep look into the gut’s hormones

Credit: Joep Beumer, copyright Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht University generated an in-depth description of the ...

Uncovering how ‘dark matter’ regions of the genome affect inflammatory diseases

Promising new drug target for autoimmune and allergic diseases revealedCredit: The Babraham Institute A study led by researchers at the ...

Color of cells a ‘thermometer’ for molecular imbalance, study finds

Non-invasive color analysis of cells could one day be used in diagnostics, a proof-of-concept study has shownCredit: Research co-author Martin ...

First epigenetic study in 3D human cancer cells

Credit: Eduard Batlle Lab @IRBBarcelona Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This ...

Assassin cells armed with anticancer drugs kill cancer masses

Credit: Won Jong Kim (POSTECH) There are immune cells in our bodies that directly destroy infected or cancer cells - ...

Developing microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) for inoperable cancer

Credit: Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan SASKATOON - An innovative radiation treatment that could one day be a valuable ...

Mucus breakthrough could help patients breathe easy

A discovery about how mucus thickness is regulated could help to improve airway-clearing treatment options for people with chronic respiratory ...

Tiny RNA that should attack coronavirus diminish with age, disease

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A group of tiny RNA that should attack the virus causing COVID-19 when ...

Study shows how memory function could be preserved after brain injury

May 12, 2020

UC Riverside-led study identifies role played by an immune signaling molecule in regulating memory function in the normal and injured ...

New tool helps distinguish the cause of blood clots

May 12, 2020

A tool that uses machine-learning technology can distinguish the cause of different types of blood clots based on subtle differences ...

A COVID-19 collaboration as big as Texas