Cells are incredibly adept at creating complex molecules, like therapeutics, and can do so much better than many of our best factories.
Biochemistry
Jun 6, 2019
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Vaccinia virus, a poxvirus closely related to smallpox and monkeypox, tricks cells it has infected into activating their own cell movement mechanism to rapidly spread the virus in cells and mice, according to a new UCL-led ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2018
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Some animals are quick-change artists. Take the hogfish, a pointy-snouted reef fish that can go from pearly white to mottled brown to reddish in a matter of milliseconds as it adjusts to shifting conditions on the ocean floor.
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2018
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Human cancers often have a little recognized ally— the increased size and number of a cell's organelles called the nucleolus. The nucleolus is where ribosomes, the cellular protein factories, are made. Ribosomes can also ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 14, 2018
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Some plants behave like the mythical monster Hydra: Cut off their heads and they grow back, bigger and better than before. A new study finds that these "overcompensators," as they are called, also augment their defensive ...
Ecology
Oct 11, 2017
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Nature makes the vibrant pigments manufacturers want for foods and cosmetics, but getting them from plants to the products we buy is so difficult that many manufacturers rely on artificial colors. Now, researchers at Rensselaer ...
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2017
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An international research team has discovered a biochemical pathway that is responsible for the development of moss cuticles. These waxy coverings of epidermal cells are the outer layer of plants and protect them from water ...
Biotechnology
Mar 8, 2017
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Primary cilia are antenna-like structures present on the surface of most cells in the human body. The cilia are essential mediators of communication between cell types in the body. If the cilia are defective, this communication ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2017
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Steroid hormones - hormones such as testosterone and estradiol - control various aspects of animal biology and are crucial for the proper functioning of the body. Produced and secreted by endocrine glands in the body, these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 5, 2015
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When Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner established the A*STAR Molecular Engineering Laboratory five years ago, his aim was to bring together a small team of young, high-caliber researchers from disparate disciplines to catalyze ...
Biochemistry
Sep 24, 2014
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