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Study: Oxidative stress can be used against tumors to treat cancer

Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps them die, scientists report.

21 Jun 2018

$Study shows fat cells increase in size and number upon exposure to fracking chemicals$

Study shows fat cells increase in size and number upon exposure to fracking chemicals

Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater promotes fat cell development, or adipogenesis, in living cells in a laboratory, according to a new Duke University-led study.

21 Jun 2018

Fetal immune cells are fast-acting first responders to microbes in adulthood

Cornell University researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body.

20 Jun 2018

Multidisciplinary Human-Focused Research

The work that we're doing in particular involves the development of better models of the human body. To do that, we need to put together cells, tissues, culture them in an artificial environment so that they feel as if they're inside the human body.

From Logos Biosystems 20 Jun 2018

Study sheds light on the early stages of tumorigenesis

Researchers from Osaka University have discovered how precancerous cells spread to normal tissue and cause cancer.

20 Jun 2018

Oxygen consumption in human BAT increases after a meal, shows research

The importance of the human brown adipose tissue has become clearer during the past ten years. Using functional imaging, positron emission tomography, PET, it was possible to show that adult humans have functional BAT.

20 Jun 2018

Combining stem cell technology and artificial intelligence to diagnose genetic cardiac diseases

A new study by Professors Martti Juhola and Katriina Aalto-Setälä of the University of Tampere in Finland demonstrates that with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it is possible not only to accurately sort sick cardiac cell cultures from healthy ones, but also to differentiate between genetic cardiac diseases.

20 Jun 2018

Study provides insights into how components of different cells in the brain are altered

Scientists have revealed that protein molecules in the brain are broken down and replaced at different rates, depending on where in the brain they are.

20 Jun 2018

Cells form cage-like structures that trap viruses, find scientists

Scientists have shown that cells can form cage-like structures around viruses to trap them and prevent them from spreading to nearby cells.

19 Jun 2018

CytoReason builds largest reference of immune-focused inter-cellular communications

New data published in Nature Biotechnology, represents the largest ever analysis of immune cell signaling research, mapping more than 3,000 previously unlisted cellular interactions, and yielding the first ever immune-centric modular classification of diseases.

19 Jun 2018

Scientists obtain key information about proteins from single human cells

Scientists have obtained a slew of key information about proteins, the molecular workhorses of all cells, from single human cells for the first time.

19 Jun 2018

Personal automated cell lab assistant from Leica saves time with quality results

PAULA, the world’s first Personal AUtomated Lab Assistant from Leica Microsystems, is ready to help out cell-lab users. As a new member of the team, PAULA would take over a large number of time-consuming, routine manual tasks that are done in every cell lab.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 19 Jun 2018

Researchers use optogenetics to shape tissues

Constructing biological tissues, such as skin, muscle, or bone, in customized shapes is now one step closer.

19 Jun 2018

Gene editing technology predicts heart disease risk

Scientists could now use gene editing and stem cell technologies to predict whether carrying a specific gene variant increases the risk of heart disease.

18 Jun 2018

Study unravels 'blood stem cell niche' puzzle

In humans and other mammals, the stem cells that give rise to all blood cells are located in the bone. But in fish, blood stem cells are found in the kidney. Since the late 1970s, when biologists first realized that blood develops in a specific location in the body — the ‘blood stem cell niche’ — they have wondered why different creatures have evolved to carry out this function in different locations.

18 Jun 2018