by Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter Researchers have made early progress toward a new approach to treating the deadly brain disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): using patients’ own immune system T cells. ALS is a rare condition that kills nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control movement. Over time, it robs people of their ability to...
by University College London Distribution of the WID-CIN index in the diagnostic validation set (A). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve corresponding to the diagnostic validation set with separate curves for women ≥ 30 years and < 30 years of age (B). Distribution of the WID-CIN index in CIN1 and CIN2 cases in the diagnostic validation...
Michaela Jarvis | MIT Media LabPublication Date: September 22, 2022 PRESS INQUIRIES Caption: An artist’s rendition of the Cell Rover, an intracellular antenna for exploring and augmenting the inner world of the cellCredits:Image: Irakli Zurabishvili for Deblina Sarkar, with models by IronWeber and Lauri Purhonen. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have designed a miniature...
Researchers track protein binding, build synthetic proteins to study gene expression. How does a nose remember that it’s a nose? Or an eye remember that it’s an eye? As scientists probe the question of how cells remember what kind of cells they are supposed to be, or their genetic lineage, it’s important to understand how...
A team of ETH researchers led by Karsten Weis has developed a method that allows them to study the assembly process for large protein complexes in detail for the first time. As their case study, the biologists chose one of the largest cellular complexes: the nuclear pore complex in yeast cells. Cells produce a great...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of researchers with East China Normal University and First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University has found that it is possible to use green tea as a control mechanism for activating cell therapies remotely. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group describes testing...
Posted Today Researchers have discovered that a key cell type involved in liver injury and cancer consists of two cellular families with different origins and functions. The research by academics from the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol and funded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council is published in Nature Communications. The distinguishing feature of...
To fight cancer and ageing, biologists are looking at how cells evict, kill or cannibalize less-fit rivals. Kendall Powell Yasuyaki Fujita has seen first-hand what happens when cells stop being polite and start getting real. He caught a glimpse of this harsh microscopic world when he switched on a cancer-causing gene called Ras in a few kidney cells in a dish....
by University of Southern California USC researchers have successfully grown human, testosterone-producing cells in the lab, paving the way to someday treat low testosterone with personalized replacement cells. In today’s Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, scientists describe how they transformed stem cells into functioning Leydig cells—the cells in the testes that produce the...
by Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown One of the reasons cancer cells are so robust against the body’s natural defenses is that they are in fact human cells, and as such they have the innate machinery not only to trick the body’s defense and maintenance systems, but even to hijack them. Therefore, discovering cancer cells’ full “bag of tricks” is key...
