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Study uncovers how brain cells encode head motion to enable navigation during the day and night

To navigate successfully in an environment, you need to continuously track the speed and direction of your head, even in the dark.

From University College London 17 Nov 2021

Novel therapy induces phagocytosis to treat bacterial pneumonia

Scientists from the National Institutes of Health recently found a therapy that targets host cells instead of bacterial cells in treating bacterial pneumonia.

17 Nov 2021

New technique anticipated to deliver personalized immunotherapies for cancer

Recent research led to a very effective technique to create many immune cells particularly engineered to identify neoantigens.

17 Nov 2021

Study analyzes electrostatic interactions of proteins in Escherichia coli

Electrostatic interaction is significant for numerous biological reactions—like protein-protein interaction, enzyme catalysis, and H+ transfer.

17 Nov 2021

Macrophages found in cardiac tissue protect the failing heart, says study

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that heart failure impacts over six million Americans and is the major reason for death.

17 Nov 2021

New gene critical for daily behavioral rhythms discovered

Life is organized on a 24-hour schedule. Central to this regular rhythm is the circadian clock, timekeepers that are present in virtually every organ, tissue and cell type.

16 Nov 2021

Researchers test a neoantigen-specific transgenic immune cell therapy for malignant gliomas

Doctors and scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and from Heidelberg University's Medical Faculty Mannheim have successfully tested a neoantigen-specific transgenic immune cell therapy for malignant brain tumors for the first time using an experimental model in mice.

16 Nov 2021

Cellular enlargement drives a decline in function of stem cells, study suggests

MIT biologists have answered an important biological question: Why do cells control their size? Cells of the same type are strikingly uniform in size, while cell size differs between different cell types. This raises the question of whether cell size is important for cellular physiology.

15 Nov 2021

Research details how HIV-infected cells evade detection by the immune system

Scientists from the Wistar Institute revealed how major features on the surface of HIV-infected cells help the disease avoid detection by the immune system.

15 Nov 2021

Apoptosis of mesenchymal stromal cells benefits therapeutic function

Scientists recently identified the therapeutic benefits to patients receiving mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy.

15 Nov 2021

Microbiome differences in autism reflect dietary preferences, says study

Earlier studies suggest that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be partly due to differences in the gut microbiota composition.

15 Nov 2021

Cellular senescence is caused by irreversible damage to the genome

Researchers have demonstrated that the aging of cells is dependent on a genomic instability mechanism that causes the disease.

15 Nov 2021

Study identifies molecular changes in red blood cells that cause vascular damage in type 2 diabetes

In type 2 diabetes, the modified function of the red blood cells causes vascular damage.

15 Nov 2021

CRISPR screening identifies metabolic enzyme as new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics

A metabolic enzyme that has been studied in cancer biology and is important for T cell function may offer a new target for anti-inflammatory therapeutics, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

12 Nov 2021

Improving our Understanding of Bacterial Membranes

We speak to Professor Bart Hoogenboom and Georgina Benn about current research using technology to create the sharpest images of living bacteria ever recorded.

From University College London 12 Nov 2021

Using a new genetic technology to decipher intratumoral heterogeneity

Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy.

12 Nov 2021

Sphere Fluidics and ClexBio giving away CYTRIX hydrogel kits

Celebrated every 10th November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significance of science in society and aims to engage the public in scientific issues.

From Sphere Fluidics Limited 12 Nov 2021

Targeting Shp2 as a cancer therapy may worsen the disease

In recent years, much scientific effort and funding has focused on developing drugs that target an enzyme with the unwieldy name of Src homology 2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase 2 or more briefly, Shp2.

10 Nov 2021

New model for early prediction of cancer patients' response to immunotherapy

Researchers have developed a model that could predict early on in treatment whether cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy, according to a report published today in eLife.

10 Nov 2021

Tough protein connects directly with neurons to cause damaging inflammatory reaction in the brain

Neuroinflammatory diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury, have been linked to deposits of a tough protein known as fibrin, derived from the blood clotting factor fibrinogen.

9 Nov 2021