Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and Université de Montréal have successfully snagged thousands of proteins key to the formation of the cell skeleton.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 23, 2019
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Despite efforts to contain it, bird flu remains a serious menace to public health.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2019
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Indiana University researchers have identified a mechanism involving the body's ability to resist fungal infection. The work could help advance research on cancer therapies that use the body's own immune system to fight disease.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 18, 2019
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La Trobe University researchers have revealed for the first time how white blood cells control the final moments of their death, helping their own removal from the human body.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2019
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Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient sample can be like finding a needle in a haystack. In a new approach enabled by 3-D-printed cell traps, researchers are removing the hay ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 28, 2019
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Red blood cells give us life. They ferry oxygen throughout our bodies. Breakdowns in red blood cell development can be life-threatening, but scientists still have much to learn about the molecular processes that ensure these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 22, 2019
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Some cells have the ability to travel in the human body, and depending on the circumstances, this can be either very, very good or very, very bad.
Biotechnology
Oct 17, 2019
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a lab-on-a-chip system that can identify the health aspects of a person's immune system from a drop of their blood, within minutes.
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 25, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Oregon have uncovered a molecular mechanism by which the human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pylori is attracted to bleach, also known as hypochlorous acid or HOCI. The study revealed that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2019
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Researchers have long theorized that cultural shifts thousands of years ago from hunting and gathering to agriculture and living in permanent settlements spurred an increase in diseases like smallpox and measles. Compared ...
Evolution
Aug 13, 2019
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