Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how different compartments (or organelles) of human cells interact.
Cell & Microbiology
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Michigan State University researchers, for the first time, have identified how plants' largest cell factory moves to maintain vital functions, which could lead to advances in improving plant cells' critical functions and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 17, 2016
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We've been able to see them for over a hundred years, but only now are scientists beginning to get to the bottom of what's happening inside membraneless organelles – compartments within cells that really do have no boundaries.
Biochemistry
Jun 13, 2016
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University of Exeter researchers have found novel insight into the ways cells organise themselves. Their work, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and published this week in Nature ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2016
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For the first time, scientists have demonstrated a simple charge-based mechanism for regulating the formation and dissolution of liquid-like structures that lack outer membranes inside cells. The research provides a first ...
Biochemistry
Dec 14, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Australia, Germany, Japan and Sweden has succeeded in successfully mapping the main protein entryway into mitochondria. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes ...
Biological evolution has always gone hand in hand with cell evolution. The cells of eukaryotes, the most advanced branch in the evolutionary tree, are characterised by the fact that their nuclei are separated by a membrane. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 15, 2015
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Much like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to scan the interior of the human body, the emerging technique of "picosecond ultrasonics," a type of acoustic imaging, can be used to make virtual slices of biological tissues ...
General Physics
Apr 21, 2015
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A research team including Dr. Stefan Schiller, his assistants Dr. Matthias Huber and Dr. Andreas Schreiber, and further groups from Freiburg and Hungary has refuted a long-held assumption in biology: The scientists have shown ...
Biochemistry
Jan 28, 2015
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Defective cilia can lead to a host of diseases and conditions in the human body—from rare, inherited bone malformations to blindness, male infertility, kidney disease and obesity. Scientists knew that somehow these tiny ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2015
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