Body temperature is a basic indicator of health. Intracellular temperature is also a basic indicator of cellular health; cancer cells are more metabolically active, and thus can have a slightly higher temperature than healthy ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 28, 2022
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Epithelial cells, which line the surfaces and organs of the body, can protect themselves against cancer by removing unhealthy or abnormal cells through a mechanism known as "apical extrusion," where the damaged cells are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2022
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Natural compounds often have promising therapeutic potential but using them to treat diseases is hampered due to toxicity or non-desirable effects. Now, a new study led by Gonçalo Bernardes, group leader at the Instituto ...
Biochemistry
Jun 27, 2022
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Artificial cells have been engineered to mimic the natural characteristics of biological cells in a new study from Imperial College London.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 13, 2022
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Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden have visualized in unprecedented detail the machinery that the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria, use to form ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2022
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The thymus is a crucial organ of the immune system. In the thymus, the well-known T cells mature: As killer cells, they recognize and destroy virus-infected or malignant cells, and as so-called helper T cells they assist ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2022
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How does cancer arise? How does cellular composition influence tumor malignancy? These questions are profound and challenging to answer, but are crucial to understand the disease and find the right cure. Now, a German-Danish ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 20, 2022
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Alternative splicing is a fundamental biological process that allows cells to make many different types of mRNAs and proteins from a limited number of genes. For many animals, including humans, it is a feature that is essential ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 13, 2022
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The rules to the kids' game "red light, green light" are easy to follow: red always means stop, and green always means go. But now, researchers from Japan have found that a key protein involved in B cell signaling acts as ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 4, 2022
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Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 just as much as you do. Though DNA is usually passed from parent to child, new research shows gut bacteria transfer genes through "sex" in order to take their vitamins.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2022
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