A new imaging project at the Morgridge Institute for Research might be the biology equivalent of a 19th century expressionist painting. Think Van Gogh's "Starry Night," a constellation of tiny lines of color combining into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2018
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Scientists have now developed an assay that concurrently profiles both the epigenome and transcriptome of each of thousands of single cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2018
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By shining highly focused infrared light on living cells, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hope to unmask individual cell identities, and to diagnose whether ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2018
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The amount of proteins inside cells fluctuates over time, and this affects various functions of the cells. Cells are constantly synthesizing and degrading proteins, and studies have shown that this "see-saw" effect actually ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 23, 2018
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In the field of systems biology, "big data" refers to the massive amounts of information that can be collected, stored and analyzed computationally and which can reveal previously unseen patterns or associations important ...
Biotechnology
Aug 20, 2018
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A few little cells that are different from the rest can have a big effect. For example, individual cancer cells may be resistant to a specific chemotherapy—causing a relapse in a patient who would otherwise be cured. In ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2018
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One of the most remarkable things about the iconic yellow and blue stripes of zebrafish is that they reliably appear at all.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 13, 2018
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The healthy function, or disease-fueling dysfunction, of any given organ stems from the behavior, or misbehavior, of the individual cells that make up that organ.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2018
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Scientists have completed a major effort to map the regulatory landscape of the mouse genome at a single-cell resolution.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2018
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Researchers have developed a novel set of chemical probes to improve real-time imaging of the activity that takes place inside individual cells.
Biotechnology
Jul 11, 2018
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