The darker areas are killer T cells that invaded the mouse's pancreas and attacked beta cells that produce insulin. The peptide MOTS-c treatment on the right decreased the amount of killer T cells, delaying the onset of type 1 diabetes. Credit: University of Southern California According to recent research in live mice and human cells...
One of the research projects being carried out by the experimental biologists in the Martin Laboratory at the University of Lausanne, under the direction of professor Sophie Martin, involves using light to trigger processes within genetically modified fission yeast cells. When team members were carrying out these experiments, they noticed that a certain protein...
New Frameshifting Therapy Effective Against Mast Cell Cancers A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has developed a new frameshifting therapy that has shown promising results against mast cell cancers in mice. Mast cell cancers are a type of cancer that affects the immune system and can be difficult to treat. In the...
University of Washington and Microsoft researchers have introduced a new class of reporter proteins that can be directly read by a commercially available nanopore sensing device. Raw nanopore signals stream from the MinION device, which contains an array of hundreds of nanopore sensors. Each color represents data from an individual nanopore. The team uses...
To work with light to activate processes within genetically modified fission yeast cells is amongst the research conducted by the experimental biologists in the Martin Laboratory at the University of Lausanne, led by Professor Sophie Martin. Team members were conducting such experiments when they saw that a specific protein would become displaced from the...
Observing how cells adhere to surfaces and their motility is vitally essential in studying tissue maintenance, injury healing, and even understanding exactly how cancer progresses. A brand-new paper published in The European Physical Journal Plus by Raj Kumar Sadhu, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, steps towards a deeper understanding of these processes. "Cell adhesion...
Artist’s concept of a microbial fuel cell with efficiencies boosted by silver nanoparticles. Credit: Image created by AKang, Sphere Studio. Copyright: Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists had a significant advancement in developing microbial fuel cells-a modern technology that uses natural bacteria to remove electrons from organic matter in...
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues have synthesized a brand-new conjugated polymer for organic electronic devices through two different chemical reactions and shown the influence of both methods on its efficiency in organic and perovskite solar batteries. The paper was published in the journal Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. As the world attempts to shift to clean...
Thyroid nodules are a usual pathology with 19-76% when screened with ultrasound, more regularly in women. Present medical techniques used to examine this cancer include executing an ultrasound, a Doppler ultrasound, and a biopsy afterward. However, sadly, these techniques provide both low specificity and also low sensitivity. This low effectiveness in accurately diagnosing thyroid...
The newly described oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (green) contact long-distance neuronal axons (magenta) on the wall of the brain ventricles. According to a study published June 20 in Science, scientists discovered two types of glial cells in the brains of adult mice - an astrocyte and an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell - after pushing neural stem cells to...
