In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil show how protozoans of the genus Leishmania that cause leishmaniasis manipulate a protein that plays ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2023
0
33
RIKEN geneticists have uncovered a protein in fruit flies that many textbooks say doesn't exist. The protein detects stress in cells and sets them on a pathway to self-destruction when they are overly stressed.
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2023
0
1064
Collaborative research at the University of Cincinnati has developed a new probe to better study cells that has already led to new knowledge about certain cellular processes.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 8, 2023
0
8
A new publication in the May issue of Nature Aging by researchers from Integrated Biosciences, a biotechnology company combining synthetic biology and machine learning to target aging, demonstrates the power of artificial ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2023
0
6801
The DNA molecules in our cells can be damaged by various extrinsic and intrinsic factors called genotoxic stressors; persistent and unchecked damage can lead to developing diseases like cancer. Fortunately, our cells don't ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2023
0
8
An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center research team has identified a protein that helps cancer cells to organize themselves in a way that allows them to successfully navigate the cell division process despite an abnormality that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 25, 2023
0
23
Using the Australian Synchrotron researchers at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment were able to see the molecular structure ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2023
0
103
Transfer RNA, more commonly referred to as tRNA, is well known for its key role in translating genetic material into protein. Recent discoveries about fragments of tRNA, which scientists had previously thought of as simply ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 13, 2023
0
8
EPFL researchers have used a nanoplasmonics approach to observe the real-time production of cell secretions, including proteins and antibodies; an advancement that could aid in the development of cancer treatments, vaccines, ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 11, 2023
0
42
A team of researchers at Tohoku University has unearthed some of the biological mechanisms of ferroptosis, a recently discovered type of regulated cell death that is triggered by iron and the accumulation of lipid peroxidation—lipids ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2023
0
121
