A protein that appears in postsynaptic protein agglomerations has been found to be crucial to their formation. The Kobe University discovery identifies a new key player for synaptic function and sheds first light on its hitherto ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2024
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Research on biomolecular self-assembly helps to reveal cell function and disease pathogenesis, and also provides an effective means to construct green ecological material systems with unique functions. Recently, a team led ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 4, 2024
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A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published a pioneering study that answers a central question in biology: How do organisms rally a wide range of cellular processes when they encounter ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2024
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Cancers, degenerative diseases: deregulation of our cells' internal communication pathways is at the root of many conditions. Microtubules—microscopic protein filaments—play a crucial role in controlling these exchanges. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 5, 2023
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Scientists have unveiled a new mechanism that plants use to sense temperature. This finding could lead to solutions to counteract some of the deleterious changes in plant growth, flowering and seed production due to climate ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2023
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A research group led by Prof. Zhang Hong from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that RNAs act as a switch to change the fate of phase-separated protein condensates from autophagic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2023
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The microbes that inhabit the gut are critical for human health, and understanding the factors that encourage the growth of beneficial bacterial species—known as "good" bacteria—in the gut may enable medical interventions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2023
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Recent studies have shown that liquid-liquid phase separation—akin to how oil droplets form in water—leads to formation of diverse types of membraneless organelles, such as stress granules and nucleoli, in living cells. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 21, 2022
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Protein arginine methylation plays an important role in regulating protein functions in different cellular processes, and its dysregulation may lead to a variety of diseases.
Biochemistry
Oct 19, 2022
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An emerging field explores how groups of molecules condense together inside cells, the way oil droplets assemble and separate from water in a vinaigrette.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 14, 2022
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