Plants get stressed and send defensive signals in the same way humans do, researchers from The University of Queensland have found.
Biotechnology
Oct 11, 2016
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Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now developed two novel biological measuring systems that facilitate better analysis of disease-relevant changes in the oxidation state of cells. One of the methods ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2016
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Antigen receptors on B lymphocytes sense foreign molecules, such as pathogens or vaccines, and activate the B cells to produce antibodies that protect humans against many diseases. Prof. Dr. Michael Reth, Scientific Director ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2015
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A new, rapid method is helping detect how bacteria sense and respond to changes in their environment.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2015
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Many living things can respond to electric fields, either moving or using them to detect prey or enemies. Weak electric fields may be important growth and development, and in wound healing: it's known that one of the signals ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 28, 2015
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Anyone who has ever bitten unknowingly into a red hot chili pepper remembers the unhappy result – burning, painful sensations that make one's mouth feel as though it has caught on fire. Yet the very chemical that causes ...
Biochemistry
Apr 21, 2015
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Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute have comprehensively described the network of proteins involved in cell-cell adhesions, or the cadherin interactome. This work was published in Science Signaling .
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2014
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A team of researchers has devised a Pac-Man-style power pellet that gets normally mild-mannered cells to gobble up their undesirable neighbors. The development may point the way to therapies that enlist patients' own cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 15, 2014
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Every organism has one aim: to survive. Its body cells all work in concert to keep it alive. They do so through finely tuned means of communication. Together with cooperation partners from Berlin and Cambridge, scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 3, 2014
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MIT researchers have devised a novel cancer treatment that destroys tumor cells by first disarming their defenses, then hitting them with a lethal dose of DNA damage.
Bio & Medicine
May 8, 2014
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