New exosome-coated stent repairs damaged tissue, heals vascular injury
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an exosome-coated stent with a "smart-release" trigger that could both prevent reopened …
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How Are Stem Cells Collected?
The stem cells used in a transplant are collected from the blood or sometimes the bone marrow. The first step …
Telomere Shortening, Aging, and Cancer
Skip to: What are Telomeres? Function of Telomeres Telomere Shortening and Aging Telomerase and Stem Cells Telomere Lengthening in Cancer …
Immortalized blood cell lines enable new studies of malaria invasion: Using artificial blood to help find ways to cure malaria
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have established a new model system that uses red blood …
Properties of cells that affect how tissue structures form
Researchers have found that changing the mechanical properties of individual cells disrupts their ability to remain stable, profoundly affecting their …
A leap forward in kidney disease research: Scientists develop breakthrough in vitro model
Kidneys work to constantly filter blood and remove toxins from the body. Conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) are …
A novel method to characterize genes with high-precision in single cells
The analysis of gene products in cells is an important tool for diagnosing disease and the design of new active …
Study links progenitor cells to age-related prostate growth: As the organ enlarges, the risk for cancer and other diseases increases
The prostates of older mice contain more luminal progenitor cells — cells capable of generating new prostate tissue — than …
New study challenges claim that exogenous RNA is essential for sperm function
Scientists from the University of Bath are challenging the claims of two high profile papers from 2018 which reported that …
Cascade exacerbates storage diseases: Researchers show that a defective degradation enzyme triggers a series of consequential damages
In rare, hereditary storage diseases such as Sandhoff’s disease or Tay-Sachs syndrome, the metabolic waste from accumulating gangliosides cannot be …
New knowledge on the development of asthma
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied which genes are expressed in overactive immune cells in mice with asthma-like …
Scientists recreate blood-brain barrier defect outside the body
Scientists can’t make a living copy of your brain outside your body. That’s the stuff of science fiction. But in …
Spatial DNA organization forms first, then the rest
The fundamental organization of the DNA in active and inactive compartments arises immediately after fertilization of the oocyte, even before …
Particulate matter from aircraft engines affects airways
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), seven million people worldwide die as a consequence of air pollution every year. …
Painting a fuller picture of how antibiotics kill: Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance
Most antibiotics work by interfering with critical functions such as DNA replication or construction of the bacterial cell wall. However, …
Introducing a kinder, gentler way to blow holes in cells: For injecting CRISPR-Cas9 into cells, new technique is more efficient, simpler and cheaper
When scientists attempt to slip big molecules, like the Cas9 enzyme that is key to CRISPR gene editing, into cells, …
Designer organelles bring new functionalities into cells: Scientists create membraneless organelle to build proteins in living cell
For the first time, scientists have engineered the complex biological process of translation into a designer organelle in a living …
New medication gives mice bigger muscles
It is common knowledge that as people grow older they lose a large part of their muscle mass — and …