By tracking the previously unknown movements of a set of specialized cells, Whitehead Institute scientists are shedding new light on how the immune system mounts a successful defense against hostile, ever-changing invaders.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 9, 2013
0
0
(Phys.org) —Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very large effects when the plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune ...
Biochemistry
Aug 30, 2013
0
0
As they grow, solid tumors surround themselves with a thick, hard-to-penetrate wall of molecular defenses. Getting drugs past that barricade is notoriously difficult. Now, scientists at UT Southwestern have developed nanoparticles ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 23, 2022
0
363
Already known for their shape-shifting abilities, stem cells can now add "death-defying" to their list of remarkable qualities.
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2020
0
860
For millennia, DNA has played a central role in storing each cell's genetic information and consists of strands with a specific sequence of four different building blocks. These DNA strands are copied by the cell at each ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 20, 2022
0
31
Scientists from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU) have found four new anti-CRISPR proteins that are distributed across different environments. The new study published in Cell Host & Microbe suggests ...
Biotechnology
Feb 6, 2019
0
468
(Phys.org) —Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a nanoshell to protect foreign enzymes used to starve cancer cells as part of chemotherapy. Their work is featured on the June 2014 cover ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 17, 2014
2
0
A team of researchers at Zhejiang University School of Medicine has developed a way to use photosynthetic cells from plants when treating osteoarthritis in mice.
The immune systems of mammals—including humans—might struggle to detect and respond to germs from other planets, new research suggests.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2020
2
528
While physicists continue to argue about whether time is indeed an illusion, as Albert Einstein claimed, biologists have no doubt about its significance for understanding life as a dynamic system.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 21, 2023
0
39
