Some people love avocados. Others hate them. For many of the latter, the fruit's texture is the source of their intense dislike. What gives?
Biochemistry
Jul 28, 2016
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Phospholipids are water insoluble "building blocks" that define the membrane barrier surrounding cells and provide the structural scaffold and environment where membrane proteins reside. During the 62nd Biophysical Society ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2018
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During brain development, billions of neuron nerve cells must find their accurate pathway in the brain in order to form trillions of neuronal circuits enabling cognitive, sensory and emotional wellbeing. To achieve this remarkable ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2019
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Like millions of Americans, Harvard Medical School postdoctoral fellow Tom Seegar struggled as he watched several family members decline from Alzheimer's disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2017
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The cellular interior is criss-crossed by protein-based cables known as microtubules, each formed from 13 'protofilaments' composed of the protein tubulin. Microtubules are also associated with a host of other specialized ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 22, 2013
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A team of developmental biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dominique Alfandari, with others at MIT, report in a new paper that they have for the first time described how two transcription factors ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2017
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The infamous spike proteins on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 help it bind to and enter human cells. Because of their important role in spreading infection, these spike proteins are one of the main targets for COVID-19 vaccines ...
Biochemistry
Feb 8, 2023
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Almost every cell in the human body, from beating heart cells to bacteria-gobbling immune cells, is powered by chemical energy produced by specialized organelles called mitochondria. The process of energy generation creates ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2018
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An LMU research team led by Nicolai Siegel has uncovered a mechanism that enables the parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans to escape the attention of the immune system. The finding may also be relevant to other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2021
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Want a younger, more perfect-looking you? Skin can stay firm and stretchy thanks to protein fibers called collagen and elastin in the tissue beneath the surface.
Other
Jun 13, 2017
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