Our body functioning is delicately balanced between the synthesis and breakdown of various cellular components. When these cellular components grow old or get damaged, they are digested by a process called autophagy—literally, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 15, 2023
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Neurodegeneration in brain cells may be happening when the natural cellular cleaning process malfunctions due to falling levels of a niacin-related coenzyme and leaves cells starved of energy, new research shows.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 27, 2023
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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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Don't let the textbook diagram of a simplified two-dimensional cell fool you—within this tiny structure of life is a complex universe of molecular machinery that is continually being built, put into motion and eventually ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 8, 2023
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In their evolutionary battle for survival, viruses have developed strategies to spark and perpetuate infection. Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2023
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Grass is famously resilient. But Paspalum vaginatum, a species better known as seashore paspalum, can tolerate stresses diverse and deadly enough to rival camels and cactuses.
Plants & Animals
Dec 15, 2022
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A research team led by Prof. Zhao Guoping from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed a mechanism by which protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) can translocate ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2022
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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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Although chemotherapy can be a lifesaving treatment for patients with cancer, some of these medications can damage the heart. A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently developed a nanoparticle ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 15, 2022
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A collaborative team of researchers from the National Institute for Basic Biology, the University of Tokyo, and Gunma University in Japan reported that in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, the number of mitochondria in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2022
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