A team of researchers from Spain, France, Germany and Singapore has found that some cells under certain conditions can exhibit superelastic properties. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their ...
A new structure in human cells has been discovered by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with colleagues in the U.K. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2018
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Scripps Research scientists have uncovered the workings of a critical process in cell survival. Their study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show exactly how a protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2018
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Malaria is the most prevalent blood-borne infectious disease caused by parasites of the species Plasmodium. In 2016, more than 216 million malaria infections were reported resulting in 445,000 deaths across the developing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2018
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Focal adhesions are large specialized proteins that are located in the area where a cell membrane meets the extracellular matrix (ECM), a collection of molecules surrounding the cells that provide support and regulate micromechanical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 1, 2018
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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that cells can 'walk' on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.
Nanomaterials
Feb 14, 2018
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A team of physicists and biologists working at Saarland University has developed a method with which they can measure the contact area between a bacterium and the surface it is 'sitting' on. Interestingly, and perhaps counterintuitively, ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 11, 2017
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How strongly tumor cells adhere to the surrounding tissue could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other parts of the body, according to a study published February 28 in Biophysical Journal. Using a spinning ...
Biochemistry
Feb 28, 2017
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University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering Professor Brian Cunningham's Nano Sensors group has invented a novel live-cell imaging method that could someday help biologists better understand ...
General Physics
Dec 7, 2016
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In adhering to body cells, many bacteria cause disease. Antibiotics are the usual means for treating infection, but decades of use have led to increasing bacterial resistance. Therefore, scientists are looking at other strategies.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2016
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