Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.
Scientific American2 天
Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works
Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...
New findings shed light on cell health: Key insights into the recycling process inside cells
A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean ...
Scientists want to create an AI virtual cell
Studying the cell is a difficult and time-consuming process, but scientists have pinpointed generative AI as a potential way ...
Science Daily6 天
The proteins that make cell-to-cell cargo transport possible
Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...
Melanoma study identifies a mechanism for eliminating harmful cells from cancer treatment
After treating a tumor with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, cells known as senescent cells can appear. These are cells that do ...
Science Daily6 天
Study finds surprising way that genetic mutation causes Huntington's disease, transforming ...
Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...
Harvard Medical School7 天
New Understanding of How Genetic Mutation Causes Huntington’s Disease
Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...
Scientific American1 天
Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills
The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...
AI-driven approach reads heart cells' inner electrical signals from the outside
The data included how the cells responded when exposed to various drugs. This offered a rich library of data on how heart ...
UC San Francisco6 天
What’s Behind Preterm Birth? Scientists Just Found a Big Clue
Funding: Primary funding for the study was by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Preterm Birth Initiative (1019789), the National Institutes of Health (R01AI150191, R01AI143187, F31HD106714), and the UCSF ...