Cells divide to grow new tissues or patch up damaged ones, but when cell division goes wrong, it can cause more harm than good. To avoid dire consequences, namely disease and unwanted cell death, cells employ a suite of failsafes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 28, 2019
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MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves. Their technique allows them to monitor single cells over several generations and investigate how stiffness changes ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2019
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The recent discovery of a new lineage of microbes has overturned biologists' understanding of the evolution of complex life on Earth. Genomic studies of Asgard archaea revealed that they carry many genes previously thought ...
Evolution
Jan 15, 2019
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There are many times when our cells need to move. Mobile cells guide our body's formation (embryonic development). Immune cells roam to capture unwanted intruders. And healing cells (fibroblasts) migrate to mend wounds. But ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 11, 2019
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A new NYU Abu Dhabi study suggests for the first time that actin, which is a cytoskeleton protein found in the cell, is critical to regulating the genome—the genetic material of an organism—during the formation of "neurons" ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 1, 2019
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Since the 1960s, scientists have known of a modification that occurs to a particular molecule in muscles, especially after exercise. What scientists haven't known is how that modification happens, or even why.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2018
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Investigators from the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group at the University of Extremadura are studying signaling mediated by a pathway known as planar cell polarity (PCP), which regulates the coordinated orientation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2018
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Keratin is a naturally occurring protein that anchors skin cells to one another and plays a crucial role in forming the epidermis. But sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2018
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The study of complex suspensions made of particles suspended in a simple fluid has been growing lately, with many opportunities for industry or lab-on-a-chip technology. The macroscopic flow properties of these suspensions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2018
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Research about mechanical control of tissue development is published in Nature Communications this week. The article identifies the protein that regulates cell rearrangement in response to increasing tissue tension. This ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 10, 2018
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