Excessive cholesterol absorption from intestinal lumen contributes to the pathogenesis of hypercholesterolemia, which is a well-established risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The absorption of intestinal ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 28, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to predict the efficacy of various genome-editing repair options. Unintentional errors in the correction of DNA mutations ...
Biotechnology
Feb 2, 2023
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Working with hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images, the team at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, a division of the Allen Institute, put numbers on the internal organization of human cells—a biological concept ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 4, 2023
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A joint research team led by Dr. Akira Kunitomi, a former postdoctoral fellow at CiRA (currently a researcher at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease), and ID Pharma Co., Ltd., has established a new method for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 15, 2022
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A study in cell lines shows a previously under-characterized protein in humans supports cholesterol synthesis.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance ...
Evolution
Nov 2, 2022
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A new method to study the proteins released by cells, which could lead to the development of new tools to track diseases including cancer, has been developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2022
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Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria—the 'batteries' that power our cells—inserts itself into our DNA, revealing a surprising new insight into how humans ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 5, 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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As a part of our immune defenses, cytotoxic T cells—or killer T cells—seek out and destroy cells that are infected or cancerous. This process is essential for the body's defense against diseases.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2022
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