In a study, Bayreuth junior professor Dr. Meike Leiske has demonstrated which properties polymers should have in order to reach only certain cells. In the future, this should enable active substances to reach cancer cells ...
Biochemistry
Jan 19, 2023
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In a series of three papers on extracellular vesicles (EVs)—particles that cells use to communicate—Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have presented two methods for extracting EVs from blood samples for diagnosing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2023
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Scientists have discovered a way to train healthy immune cells to acquire the skills of some tumor cells—but for a good purpose—to accelerate diabetic wound healing. This remarkably promising finding, recently published ...
Biotechnology
Jan 3, 2023
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Honeybee venom has been used in traditional medicine for centuries as an anti-inflammatory. Only its main component, melittin, has been scientifically well researched. However, with its strong effect, the natural substance ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2022
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Body cells burn off fat reserves when nutrient supply from food ceases. A team led by Professor Volker Haucke and Dr. Wonyul Jang from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) has now discovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
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Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz may have discovered new insights into how cancer cells regulate the ends of their chromosomes, called telomeres. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
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To design drugs that stall the growth of aggressive cancers, it helps to know the structures of the proteins that are revving the cancers' engines.
Biochemistry
Dec 9, 2022
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Everyone knows someone who has had cancer. In 2020, around 19 million new cases—and around 10 million deaths—were registered worldwide. Treatments are improving all the time, but can damage healthy cells or have severe ...
Biochemistry
Dec 7, 2022
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EPFL researchers have discovered that it is not just molecular density, but also pattern and structural rigidity, that control super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces. The breakthrough ...
Biochemistry
Nov 22, 2022
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For cancer cells to grow and spread around the human body, they need proteins that bind copper ions. New research about how cancer-related proteins bind the metal and how they interact with other proteins, opens up potential ...
Biochemistry
Nov 10, 2022
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