A parasitic amoeba that causes severe gut disease in humans protects itself from attack by biting off pieces of host cells and putting their proteins on its own surface, according to a study by microbiologists at the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2019
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The formation of the embryo, from its very early stages of development, is a complex choreography that is still a mystery to science. How each cell forms, and how tissues develop correctly are processes ruled by biochemical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2019
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The complex inner workings of cells, from their architecture to their signaling, underlie much of multicellular organic life. How are they built? How do their proteins interact? And most crucially, how can understanding these ...
Biochemistry
Apr 26, 2019
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Researchers from University of Southern Denmark, Wellcome Sanger Institute and BGI have published a study in the journal Genome Biology comparing the library preparation and sequencing platforms for single-cell RNA-sequencing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 9, 2019
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A Belgian team of computational biologists led by Stein Aerts (VIB-KU Leuven) has developed a new bioinformatics method called cisTopic. Inspired by text-mining methods, cisTopic helps scientists to gain insight into the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 9, 2019
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A promising alternative to conventional power plants, solid oxide fuel cells use electrochemical methods that can generate power more efficiently than existing combustion-based generators. But fuel cells tend to degrade too ...
Materials Science
Apr 9, 2019
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Scientists have shown that different segments of a virus genome can exist in distinct cells but work together to cause an infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2019
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By applying gene analysis to individual cells from early mouse embryos, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered previously unknown cellular stages of fetal development from fertilised egg to living ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2019
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Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an infinite pool of liquid may not sound like a recipe for order, but eventually the swarm will go with its own flow.
General Physics
Mar 4, 2019
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Did you hear what happened when Bill Gates walked into a bar? Everybody there immediately became millionaires—on average.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 4, 2019
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