While the first genome-wide DNA methylation map in mammalian cells was established over 10 years ago, such maps only provide snapshots and do not inform about the actual dynamics of this epigenetic mark. Researchers from ...
Biotechnology
Jun 2, 2020
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Over the past few decades, there have been a handful of incidents in which manufacturing processes for making protein drugs became contaminated with viruses at manufacturing plants. These were all discovered before the drugs ...
Biotechnology
Apr 27, 2020
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Every day, in countries all over the world, people are dying because of a new virus. This time they are dying from a new strain of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 that causes the acute respiratory disease known as COVID-19. ...
Ecology
Apr 23, 2020
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A tiny chemical modification on one of the most abundant and important proteins in cells, actin, has long been somewhat mysterious, its function not fully understood, but scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 8, 2020
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A research team at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) developed a method to isolate and cryopreserve testicular cells. This will allow the safekeeping and biobanking of gametes and other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 31, 2020
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Cells depend on signaling to regulate most life processes, including cell growth and differentiation, immune response and reactions to various stresses.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 4, 2020
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After decades of speculation, researchers have demonstrated that a classical DNA repair enzyme also binds to RNA, affecting blood cell development.
Biotechnology
Feb 27, 2020
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A new synthetic biology toolkit developed at Northwestern University will help researchers design mammalian cells with new functionalities.
Biotechnology
Feb 7, 2020
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One of the wonders of cell biology is its symmetry. Mammalian cells have one nucleus and one cell membrane, and most humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Trillions of mammalian cells achieve this uniformity—but some consistently ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 30, 2019
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If a bone breaks or a tendon snaps, you know to seek treatment immediately. But your most fragile and precious cellular commodity, chromosomal DNA, breaks with astounding frequency—some estimate as many as 10,000 times ...
Biotechnology
Dec 2, 2019
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