Regulation of gene expression—turning genes on or off, increasing or decreasing their expression—is critical for defining cell identity during development and coordinating cellular activity throughout the cell's lifetime. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 19, 2018
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Proteins are the building blocks of the cell. They do most of the work and are essential for the structure, function and dynamic regulation of the cell and body's tissues and organs. Proteins rarely work alone, they interact, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2018
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The development of an adult organism starts with a fertilized egg that differentiates into hundreds of specialized cell types comprising tissues and organs. How these cell fate changes happen is a subject of research interest. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2018
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have made a surprise discovery about how subtle changes in the way cell survival is regulated during embryonic development can have drastic health implications.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2018
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A team led by Prof. Stein Aerts (VIB-KU Leuven) has reported how access to relevant DNA regions is orchestrated in epithelial cells. These findings shed new light on the biological mechanisms of gene regulation and open up ...
Biotechnology
Jun 5, 2018
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One family of genes allows cells to adapt to daily changes in environmental conditions by adjusting the circadian clock responsible for regular sleep-wake cycles. The new discovery by University of Tokyo scientists reveals ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2018
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Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, together with researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, have set up a novel lab-on-a-chip with accompanying automatic analysis software. As they report ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2018
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University of Arkansas physicists have developed a new way for quantifying data from microscopic observations that could help scientists better study how cancer cells respond to treatment, among other benefits. The research, ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2017
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When growing cells in the lab, researchers routinely add antibiotics to prevent contamination. But a new study by UC San Francisco researchers raises a red flag against this standard practice, finding that it can induce unintentional ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2017
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A new study in Science from Karolinska Institutet maps out how different DNA-binding proteins in human cells react to certain biochemical modifications of the DNA molecule. The scientists report that some 'master' regulatory ...
Biotechnology
May 4, 2017
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