Potential drug treatment for particular type of lung-cancer
Credit: Kanazawa University The effectiveness of cancer treatment is often hampered by cancer cells being heterogeneous. This is the case ...
Tag: Molecular Biology
Promising breath-test for cancer
Potential for early warning of head, neck cancerCredit: Flinders University The global quest to use a person's breath analysis for ...
Cyanobacteria as “green” catalysts in biotechnology
Cyanobacteria are environmentally friendly and readily available biocatalysts for the production of new chemicals and, thanks to researchers at TU ...
Horwitz Prize awarded to scientists who showed how the ear and brain process sound
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Columbia University will award the 2020 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Robert ...
Tumor progression depends on the tumor microenvironment
Credit: Department of Biochemistry,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Niigata University identify a novel mechanism by ...
Cancer cells use nerve-cell tricks to spread from one organ to the next
Credit: Laboratory Of Systems Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University Tumors come in many shapes and forms--curable or deadly, solid ...
Zebrafish embryos help prove what happens to nanoparticles in the blood
Credit: Yuya Hayashi. Adapted from Mohammad-Beigi et al. (2020) ACS Nano. Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society A variety of nanoparticles ...
Molecules responsible for radio-resistant glioblastoma identified
Credit: Jin-Min Nam Scientists have identified key molecules that mediate radioresistance in glioblastoma multiforme; these molecules are a potential target ...
How the Humboldt squid’s genetic past and present can secure its future
Marine biologists studying the genetic structure of the Humboldt squid population found it is vulnerable to overfishing by fleets on ...
Breaking COVID-19’s ‘clutch’ to stop its spread
Researchers engineer RNA-targeting compounds that disable the pandemic coronavirus' replication engineCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - Sept. ...
Mosquitos lost an essential gene with no ill effects
UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functionsCredit: ...
A revised map of where working memory resides in the brain
Credit: Laboratory of Neural Dynamics and Cognition at The Rockefeller University Working memory: it's how you make a mental shopping ...
In a field where smaller is better, researchers discover the world’s tiniest antibodies
Researchers at the University of Bath in the UK and biopharma company UCB have found a way to produce miniaturised antibodies, opening ...
Why do structural differences in α-synuclein aggregates cause different pathologies?
Credit: TMIMS Misfolding and aggregation of normally soluble proteins are common pathological features of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ...
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