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Cytophysics: How cells migrate through gaps smaller than their nucleus
Eukaryotic cells—that is, cells with a nucleus—possess an astounding ability to radically change their shape and their cytoskeleton, allowing them to migrate through tiny pores and constrictions even smaller than their ...
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Cells use alternative splicing to regulate gene expression, research suggests
Alternative splicing is a genetic process where different segments of genes are removed, and the remaining pieces are joined together during transcription to messenger RNA (mRNA). This mechanism increases the diversity of ...
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Enhancing microbe memory to better upcycle excess CO₂
While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. These tiny organisms can also be engineered to make specific molecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2024
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Scientists discover molecular mechanism that plays key role in gene transcription and macrophage functional activation
As the largest variant of the histone H2A family, macroH2A plays significant regulatory roles in various processes such as X-chromosome inactivation, embryonic development, cellular metabolism, and tumorigenesis due to its ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2024
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AI tool maps out cell metabolism with precision
Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy—collectively known as metabolism—is essential in biology. Modern biology generates large datasets on various cellular activities, but integrating and analyzing ...
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Aug 30, 2024
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Light-activated polymerization methods unlock new possibilities for intracellular applications
Synthetic polymers play a crucial role in cell biology, serving as delivery vehicles for DNA and drugs, acting as fluorescent probes for cellular sensing, functioning as bioinks for tissue engineering, and mimicking biological ...
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Aug 30, 2024
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Promising antibiotic candidates discovered in microbes deep in the Arctic Sea
Antibiotics are the linchpin of modern medicine: without them, anyone with open wounds or needing to undergo surgery would be at constant risk of dangerous infections. Yet we continue to face a global antibiotics crisis, ...
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Aug 30, 2024
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Novel probiotics identified in traditional Brazilian cheeses
Research conducted at the Center for Dairy Technology (Tecnolat) in Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil, has identified lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that have probiotic properties and are beneficial to human health in samples ...
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Aug 29, 2024
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Tuberculosis under the sea: A marine sponge microbe provides insights into the bacterium's evolution
The surprising discovery of a bacterium in a marine sponge from the Great Barrier Reef with striking similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), could unlock and inform future ...
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Aug 29, 2024
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Bacteria able to overcome cost of vancomycin resistance in lab setting
Staphylococcus aureus has the potential to develop durable vancomycin resistance, according to a study published August 28, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Samuel Blechman and Erik Wright from the University ...
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Aug 29, 2024
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Machine-learning models can predict colonization outcomes of complex microbial communities
Microbial communities are constantly exposed to the invasion of exogenous species, which can significantly alter their composition and function. The capacity of a microbial community to resist invasion is regarded as an emergent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Avian flu has infected dairy cows in more than a dozen states—a microbiologist explains how the virus is spreading
The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in Colorado.
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Aug 29, 2024
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What's in the foods we eat? Researchers develop a food microbiome database
Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the "food microbiome" by sequencing the metagenomes ...
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Aug 29, 2024
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Bacterial defense strategy has potential application in genome editing
Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a promising platform for development of a new genome-editing method.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Shedding light on the mechanism of yeast DNA repair
DNA damage is a cellular phenomenon that introduces structural abnormalities in double-stranded DNA. External factors, such as radiation or chemical agents, as well as internal factors, such as blocked DNA replication, can ...
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Aug 29, 2024
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New knowledge about cell receptors paves the way for future drugs against intestinal tumors
A new study from Karolinska Institutet published in Nature Communications provides valuable insights into the activation of receptors on the cell surface. The knowledge could lead to new targeted therapies and drugs against ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Compounds from nucleic acids in food show anticancer effects
When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living things. The compounds in these acids could inhibit the growth of cancer cells, according to findings published in PLOS ONE by Osaka Metropolitan University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Study shows an electrically-activated protein regulates spermatogenesis
Frankenstein's monster was brought to life by the judicious application of a little electricity; and a surprising number of processes in our bodies are regulated by electrical currents too. Now, researchers from Japan reveal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Climate change will increase foodborne illness risk from raw produce, research suggests
Climate change will increase the risk of foodborne illness from Salmonella enterica, according to a new study. The research appears in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?
Chef-turned-chemist Vayu Hill-Maini has a passion: to turn food waste into culinary treats using fungi.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2024
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