Based on research that reveals new insight into mechanisms that allow invasive tumor cells to move, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have a new understanding about how to stop cancer from spreading. A cancer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 29, 2009
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Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer's disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common mechanism is at work: nucleation processes.
Nanomaterials
Nov 22, 2016
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For the first time, scientists have created, from scratch, self-assembling protein filaments.
Biochemistry
Nov 8, 2018
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AMOLF researchers have presented a theory that describes the friction between biological filaments that are crosslinked by proteins. Surprisingly, their theory predicts that the friction force scales highly nonlinearly with ...
General Physics
Aug 14, 2020
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In the current issue of Nature Materials, polymer scientists Greg Grason, Douglas Hall and Isaac Bruss at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Justin Barone at Virginia Tech, identify for the first time the factors ...
Materials Science
Mar 21, 2016
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Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases are investigating the mechanism by which several important pathogenic species of bacteria deliver proteins into the cells of the organisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 9, 2016
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Researchers who have revealed a highly efficient way that bacteria use toxins to interrupt the immune response say that until now, the trickery of these toxins has been underappreciated in science.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 10, 2015
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Uncovering the essential building blocks which bacteria use to make long, hair-like filaments could lead to new drugs to fight infection.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 19, 2017
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(Phys.org)—The plasma membranes that give cells their shapes are typically upheld by linear meshworks of the protein actin. In contrast, Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have now discovered that periodic ring-shaped ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2013
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Several well-known neurodegenerative diseases, such as Lou Gehrig's (ALS), Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's disease, all result in part from a defect in autophagy - one way a cell removes and recycles misfolded ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 18, 2015
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