Scientists Find Missing-In-Action Multiple Sclerosis Genes
An international collaboration led by scientists at Yale has cracked a tough nut in multiple sclerosis: Where are all the genes? Previous work by the…
Cell Biology
VGP Project Releases Fifteen New Genomes
The International Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) has officially launched and released 15 new reference genomes representing all five vertebrate classes – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,…
Scientists Provide New Insights Into the Origins of Genetic Diseases
A three-dimensional map showing an actin filament (blue) bound to a fragment of the cross-linking protein, filamin A (green). For human cells to form and…
Size of Nucleolus Plays Important Role Protecting Cells Against Infection
All cells in the body have the basic ability to protect themselves from infection, called the innate immune response. But how cells do this is…
Unlocking the Mysteries of Chromatin
Unlocking the mysteries of chromatin – a mix of RNA, DNA and protein that serves to package and protect DNA – could lead to important…
New Molecular Details of Cancer Cells Could Lead to Improved Treatment
Uncovered details of a molecular pathway in cancer cells could lead to improved treatment. Targeting a pathway that controls the movement of mitochondria, the powerhouses…
Scientists Discover How Microenvironments Regulate Stem Cell Development
Researchers from the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered an important…
Scientists Find Evidence Of A Protein That Existed When Life Began
How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps only hard evidence that simple protein catalysts – essential for…
Researchers Discover How to Stop Cell Death Associated with Multiple Diseases
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a way to stop immune cell death associated with multiple diseases, including sepsis, inflammatory…
Molecular Switch Serves as New Target Point for Cancer and Diabetes Therapies
If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz- Forschungsinstitut für…
Scientists Create a Mouse That Eats Fat But Doesn’t Get Fat, Possible Treatment for Obesity
Yale scientists set out to create a morbidly obese mouse. They failed miserably. What they found was much more interesting. “We created a mouse that…
Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Cellular Defense Against Breast Cancer
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk ducts reaches out to…
MIT Engineered Nanoparticles Boost Immune Cells
Programming the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. This tactic has…
Scientists Uncover New Target To Stop Cancer Growth
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer cells secrete large numbers of exosomes–tiny, membrane-bound packages containing proteins…
Biologists Create 3D Maps of DNA Within the Innermost Parts of a Cell
Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50…
Natural Sorting Mechanism Allows Bacteria to Preserve Diversity
Diversity in bacteria — and in all forms of life — ensures the ability to survive random changes in the environment. But when a bacterial…
Scientists Identify Cell Types Underlying Schizophrenia
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and University of North Carolina, USA, have identified the cell types underlying schizophrenia in a new study published in…
New Method Uses Vitamin D to Treat Diabetes and Protect β Cells
More than 27 million people in the United States are living with type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As…