Tag: Molecular Biology

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 17, 2019) -- A new approach to pancreatic cancer ...

Wired for obesity

Scientists are piecing together how genes involved in neural development can affect body weightCredit: Dr. Sebastien Bouret, CHLA Leading a ...

Models of life

Artificially produced cells communicate with each otherCredit: Aurore Dupin / TUM Friedrich Simmel und Aurore Dupin, researchers at the Technical ...

The cytoskeleton of neurons has been found to be involved in Alzheimer's disease

A researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has participated in the study into the impairment of the dynamics ...

Molecular machinery that makes potent antibiotic revealed after decades of research

Discovery by Rutgers and other scientists could lead to new antibiotics and anticancer drugsCredit: Dmitry Ghilarov Scientists at Rutgers and ...

Sea slug study illuminates how mitochondria move

Massive energy needed for nerve cells to keep 'talking'Credit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Jan. 16, 2019 ...

Unintended side effects: antibiotic disruption of the gut microbiome dysregulates skeletal health

January 16, 2019

The healthy gut microbiome contributes to skeletal health, and disruption of this system with antibiotics leads to a pro-inflammatory immune ...

Research reveals mechanism for leukaemia cell growth, prompting new treatment hopes

January 16, 2019

Research reveals new blood cell mechanism which drives leukaemia growthCredit: University of Sussex A mechanism which drives leukaemia cell growth ...

Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor

January 16, 2019

Scientists use deep learning for the first time ever to account for human evolutionCredit: Pilar Rodriguez By combining deep learning ...

Surge protector: A novel approach to suppressing therapy-induced tumor growth and recurrence

BOSTON - Following up on a groundbreaking 2018 study in which BIDMC's Dipak Panigrahy, MD, demonstrated that dead and dying ...

How cancer becomes transmissible in Tasmanian devils: Molecular mechanisms elucidated

Hindering melanoma metastasis with an FDA-approved drug

Promising findings from the School of Veterinary Medicine show that a medicine originally used to control blood pressure may prevent ...

Researchers discover common markers of tumor hypoxia across 19 cancer types

Landmark pan-cancer study analyzes mutation signatures of low oxygen in more than 8,000 tumors TORONTO (January 14, 2019) - Unlike ...

Research confirms nerve cells made from skin cells are a valid lab model for studying disease

Salk and Stanford team shows that induced neuronal cells derived from fibroblasts are similar to neurons in the brain, on ...

Scientists have identified a bone marrow backup system

Credit: Courtesy of Mark Miller, Stowers Institute for Medical Research KANSAS CITY, MO -- New research from the Stowers Institute ...

Anticancer drug candidate inhibits lethal aggregation of mutant tumor suppressor protein

Brazilian researchers are the first to demonstrate the action of PRIMA-1 against amyloid aggregates of mutant p53 protein, structure found ...

How Candida albicans exploits lack of oxygen to cause disease

Credit: The image was acquired at the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) journal MBio, a publication of the ...

Fever alters immune cells so they can better reach infections

Fever is known to help power up our immune cells, and scientists in Shanghai have new evidence explaining how. They ...

Europe looks to cells for a healthier future

Credit: Agnieszka Rybak Wolf, Lab of Nikolaus Rajewsky at BIMSB / MDC Our body's cells are constantly changing. But which ...

Defective glial cells can push neurons toward Parkinson's disease