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Scientists Uncover New Insights into Cellular Recycling Process

Recycling is just as essential in cells as in our more familiar macroscopic world. Cells continuously generate waste products and accumulate damaged components while performing regular functions.

3 Nov 2023

Study Identifies Significant Changes in Peptides During Pyroglutamination

Peptides are biomolecules formed when two or more amino acids that perform key functions in the human organism, such as hormones, neurotransmitters, painkillers and antibiotics, bind together. For this reason, they are much studied and used by the pharmaceutical industry, for example.

2 Nov 2023

Exploring the Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Cellular Communication

A research project, jointly conducted by scientists affiliated with the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute, has uncovered the potential advantages of employing an agarose spot migration assay for assessing the capacity of extracellular vesicles to attract neighboring cells within a controlled setting.

1 Nov 2023

Bacteriophages as Unexpected Allies in Mammalian Health

In a research study, Jeremy J. Barr, along with colleagues from Monash University in Victoria, Australia, present findings indicating that mammalian cells may uptake phages as a means to enhance cellular growth and survival.

27 Oct 2023

Exploring the Probiotic Potential of Fungi in Food Production

As detailed in a recent study, two fungi employed in food production exhibit promising probiotic properties that could help alleviate gut inflammation. This research sheds light on a potential avenue for creating novel probiotics.

27 Oct 2023

The Exclusome, A New Mammalian "Container"

We speak to Dr. Ruth Kroschewski about new research that details the existence of an 'exclusome', a cytoplasmic container that appears to explain where extra-chromosomal DNA goes once it is in a cell.

24 Oct 2023

New Microscopy Technique Reveals Unprecedented Details of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Karolinska Institute (KI), and the biotechnology company BioArctic, both in Sweden, have combined STED microscopy, a technology that allows super-resolution visualization, and a new antibody recently created to observe the amyloidogenic aggregates characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

12 Oct 2023

Towards A Better Understanding of Early Human Embryonic Development

Despite being an essential developmental process, the understanding of human embryonic genome activation is limited, owing to the lack of in vitro cell models and ethical concerns.

22 Sep 2023

The First Microrobots Capable of Navigating Within Groups of Cells and Stimulating Individual Cells

A group of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed the world's first microrobot ("microbot") capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells.

12 Sep 2023

Study Reports High-Resolution Structures of CAF-1

Since the passage of the DNA replication fork destroys nucleosomes on the DNA, chromatin inheritance during cell division requires the replication of DNA and the assembling of nucleosomes onto the duplicated DNA.

28 Aug 2023

New Mechanism Regulating Tumor Growth in the Skeleton Identified

Tumor cells are known to be fickle sleeper agents, often lying dormant in distant tissues for years before reactivating and forming metastasis. Numerous factors have been studied to understand why the activation occurs, from cells and molecules to other components in the so-called tissue microenvironment.

11 Aug 2023

Reptile Conservation Could Benefit From New Range of Cell Lines

The creation of the first wide variety of reptile cell lines is highlighted in a new scientific study that was published in the journal Microorganisms.

7 Aug 2023

New Breakthrough in Generative AI Models and AlphaFold Structures for Drug Discovery

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage end-to-end generative artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery company, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the application of multiple generative AI models and AlphaFold structures for drug discovery.

3 Aug 2023

New Gene Editing Technique Reduces Chalkiness in Rice

As global temperatures continue to rise, maintaining the quality and yield of crops adapted to lower temperatures will increasingly become a challenge.

31 Jul 2023

Bioengineers Harness 3D Printing to Create Functional Heart Ventricle

Over the last decade, advances in 3D printing have unlocked new possibilities for bioengineers to build heart tissues and structures.

28 Jul 2023

New Proof-of-Concept Model for Delivering Gene Editing Tools to Treat Blood Disorders

In a step forward in the development of genetic medicines, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a proof-of-concept model for delivering gene editing tools to treat blood disorders, allowing for the modification of diseased blood cells directly within the body.

28 Jul 2023