Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the body's process of removing old and damaged cell parts is also an essential part of tackling infections that take hold within our cells, like TB.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2023
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Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process of cytosolic materials and damaged organelles. Researchers at Ubiquitin Project of TMIMS have been studying the molecular mechanism of mitophagy, the selective autophagy process ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2021
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Research at the Babraham Institute uniting cell signalling, autophagy, mass spectrometry and imaging expertise has resolved a fundamental question about whether the cellular recycling process is halted during cell division. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2019
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The precise mechanism used by Legionella bacteria to escape the body's defences has been unpicked in intricate detail and is described for the first time in the journal eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2017
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A study published in Science Bulletin has been led by Prof. Chao Wang (China Agricultural University), Prof. Guoliang Xia (China Agricultural University) and Prof. Fengchao Wang (National Institute of Biological Sciences).
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 9, 2024
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The results of preclinical studies by investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) reported in an article published online on July 11, 2016 in Nature Cell Biology demonstrate that disabled 2 (Dab2) serves ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2016
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Deprived of sunlight, plants are unable to transform carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into sugars. They are essentially starved of one of their most important building blocks.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2020
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The maintenance of a healthy cell population is a dynamic process, whereby unhealthy cells are eliminated by a defense mechanism called cell competition. This process is crucial as unhealthy cells or cells that have accumulated ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2022
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Researchers at Tohoku University have found that plants activate autophagy in their leaf cells to derive amino acids that are used for survival under energy-starved conditions. The findings show that amino acid utilization ...
Biotechnology
Mar 13, 2018
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Recycling is just as essential in cells as in our more familiar macroscopic world. Cells continuously generate waste products and accumulate damaged components while performing regular functions. Various recycling mechanisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 2, 2023
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