Brown University engineers have developed a new technique to help researchers understand how cells move through complex tissues in the body. They hope the tool will be useful in understanding all kinds of cell movements, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 29, 2016
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Cells, like any other material, have mechanical properties that can serve for their characterization. For example, cancer cells are characteristically more deformable than healthy cells. These mechanical properties can be ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 2, 2015
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Umeå University researchers have found that among the many factors that shape the intestinal microbiota composition, diet has a much stronger impact than defensins, which are intestinal defense molecules produced by the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2023
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In a series of three papers on extracellular vesicles (EVs)—particles that cells use to communicate—Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have presented two methods for extracting EVs from blood samples for diagnosing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2023
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John Oakey's work at the cellular and molecular level could radically change the way cancer is treated.
Biochemistry
Mar 4, 2019
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Fewer dogs in Brazil may be euthanized unnecessarily after researchers showed that a new test is 95 percent accurate in identifying the deadly disease Leishmaniasis.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 1, 2019
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Researchers have found that a previously uncharacterized tumor-suppressor protein plays an important role in the functioning of the immune system. The study, which will be published in the June 22 issue of the Journal of ...
Biochemistry
Jun 21, 2018
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Human cells show deformation under the influence of external forces. But how do they recover their original shape afterwards? This mechanism, which is important in medicine and biology, has been described for the first time ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2016
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Nanoparticles filled with chemotherapeutic drugs can kill drug-resistant breast cancer cells, according to a study published in the scientific journal Biomaterials.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 7, 2013
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The United States is an increasingly polarized country when it comes to politics—but one thing that almost all people want is to live a long, healthy life.
Social Sciences
May 25, 2023
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