Cell Biology News and Research

Latest Cell Biology News and Research

Symbiotic bacteria support the unusual life cycle and diet of reed beetles

Insects that feed only on plants have a number of challenges to overcome. But they also have some active helpers to assist them with the supply of important nutrients.

15 Jun 2020

New machine learning model accurately predicts base editing outcomes

Gene editing technology is getting better and growing faster than ever before. New and improved base editors--an especially efficient and precise kind of genetic corrector--inch the tech closer to treating genetic diseases in humans.

15 Jun 2020

Interconnected mycobacteria stay alive longer

The tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis can protect itself better when combined and thus stay alive longer in the air.

15 Jun 2020

Activating specific neurons can trigger hibernation-like state in mice

In Sci-Fi movies, astronauts often enter an inactive state in "hibernation chambers" to cross the vastness of space.

15 Jun 2020

Researchers discover signaling pathway that can regulate beige fat thermogenesis

Researchers have discovered a new set of signals that cells send and receive to prompt one type of fat cell to convert fat into heat.

12 Jun 2020

Cardiac organoids that closely mimic physiological conditions during a heart attack

In the U.S., someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds, and yet researchers have not had a model that fully mimics what occurs in the human heart after a heart attack.

12 Jun 2020

New protein design could help in drug discovery for Parkinson’s disease

The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a vital role in everything, starting from motor control to higher cognitive functions, arousal, motivation, sexual gratification, and reinforcement.

12 Jun 2020

Human stem cell models reveal neurodegeneration in glaucoma

Glaucoma, a serious eye condition responsible for causing vision loss, affects over three million Americans.

12 Jun 2020

Protein glycosylation plays a major role in DNA methylation

An underlying principle in molecular biology is that “DNA makes RNA makes protein.” The process of gene expression is firmly controlled in various ways.

12 Jun 2020

Researchers create a new model to study early stage of human development

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have devised a new model to analyze an early stage of human development through human embryonic stem cells.

12 Jun 2020

Excessive degradation of mitochondria causes severe disease in children

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that excessive degradation of the power plants of our cells plays an important role in the onset of mitochondrial disease in children.

12 Jun 2020

New project to make better fluorescent tags turns into a method to kill tumors

A Rice University lab's project to make better fluorescent tags has turned into a method to kill tumors. Switching one atom in the tag does the trick.

12 Jun 2020

Deleting a key gene to create an immune cell with stronger anti-tumor activity

Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells -- a type of immune cell -- with measurably stronger activity against a form of leukemia, both in vivo and in vitro.

From UC San Diego 12 Jun 2020

Baylor researchers uncover a novel mechanism that triggers cellular immune response

Viruses and other disease-causing microbes influence the type of immune response their hosts will develop against them. In some cases, the predominant response involves antibodies, proteins made by the immune system that specifically recognize parts of the invading microbe and mediate its destruction.

12 Jun 2020

Diversity of plant cell gatekeepers could be key to develop crops with bigger yields

Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in and out of plant cells works, which researchers believe is key to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with extreme environments.

12 Jun 2020