Scientists Measure and Control the Temperature Inside Living Cells
DARPA researchers have developed new techniques that allow them to measure and control the temperature in living cells. The techniques could support thermal management, control…
Cells
Using Urine to Make Brain Cells
Urine could be used as a powerful source of brain cells to study some disease, and could even be used one day in therapies to…
Disabling MicroRNAs Allows Mice to Regenerate White Cells and Platelets Depleted by Chemotherapy
Using a novel technique to analyze simultaneously large numbers of microRNAs in living mice, scientist at Yale University identified and disabled miR-150, allowing mice to…
Chemical Model Shows How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
Using polymers, scientists at Penn State created primitive cell-like structures that they infused with RNA, demonstrating how the molecules would react chemically under conditions that…
3-D Scaffold That Could Monitor Electrical Activity of Engineered Tissue
Designed by a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital, electronic sensors made of silicon nanowires could be used to monitor electrical…
Shape Determines Therapeutic Properties of Engineered Cells
In a recently published study, MIT scientists show that implanted cells’ therapeutic properties depend on their shape, which is determined by the type of scaffold…
Microfluidic System Precisely Measures Mammalian Cell Growth Rates
Using a microfluidic system for simultaneously measuring single-cell mass and cell cycle progression over multiple generations, a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical…
Optogenetics Regulates Metabolic Activity in the Membranes of Cells
By using optogenetics, a new study from a team of scientists is one of the first to use light to regulate metabolic activity in the…
First Whole-Cell Computational Model of the Life Cycle of an Organism
Using data from more than 900 scientific papers, a team of Stanford researchers produced the first whole-cell computational model of the life cycle of the…
Exosome Function Regulates Gene Expression
New research data from scientists at USC San Diego suggests that the human exosome maintains progenitor cell function, functioning as a surveillance system in cells…
Single Cancer Cells Often Split into Three or More Daughter Cells
A newly published study from Bioengineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science describes the effects of confined mechanical environments on…
Role of the SMN Gene in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina suggests that previous assumptions regarding the SMN gene, which is linked with spinal muscular…
A Step Towards Understanding the Cellular Basis for Age-Related Vulnerability to Breast Cancer
A new study from the Berkeley Lab takes a step forward in the fight against breast cancer, gaining a better understanding of the cellular basis…
Crowding Causes Internal Cell Structure Alignment
By mimicking the crowded environment in actual cells, a team of researchers found that certain molecules organize as they would in the body, inducing a…
Scientists Reveal the Structure of Bacterial Injection Needles at Atomic Resolution
Pathogens that cause plague or cholera use miniature syringes to introduce molecular agents into their host cell, disabling the immune defense of the infected cell….
Evolutionary Changes Surrounding the NOS1 Gene
A new study from neurobiologists at Yale University examines the evolutionary changes surrounding the NOS1 gene and suggests that the same evolutionary mechanisms that may…
Flavonoid Compound Shown to Prevent Blood Clots
Newly published findings from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center describe how rutin was shown to inhibit the formation of blood clots in an animal…
New Drug Fights Cancer by ‘Hijacking’ Existing T Cells
A new study describes how a team of researchers are exploring ways to manipulate the body’s existing T cells that normally kill viruses and redirect…