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Food science principles help scientists to understand inner workings of cellular compartments

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that food science principles have helped them determine how unusual droplets within cells stay organized and avoid dissolving into the rest of the cell's gelatinous interior.

9 Sep 2021

Cellular program could turn T cells into effective cancer killers

Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different "program" that makes them less effective than immune cells in patients whose cancers respond to these immune treatments, suggests a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

9 Sep 2021

IGVF consortium receives NIH funding to study how genomic variation influences biological function

The National Institutes of Health is providing approximately $185 million over five years to the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function consortium, initiated and funded by NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute.

9 Sep 2021

Scientists create a novel cell model for understanding human development

The earliest moments of human development—between the time of fertilization and when the embryo implants in the womb—have remained opaque to scientists.

9 Sep 2021

Highly extensive Gut Cell Atlas will transform research into intestinal diseases

Many diseases have their origin in early human development, and today (8th September), two publications in Nature reveal how researchers from the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium are advancing understanding of this.

9 Sep 2021

Researchers use amphibian foam to deliver drugs for the first time

Amphibian foam has been used in drug delivery for the first time by researchers, which could help to combat the rise of antimicrobial resistance.

9 Sep 2021

Salt tasting cells drive food foraging strategy in nematode worms

Neuroscientists have developed a computer model to explain how a nematode worm searches for food, revealing that single brain cells can both sense the environment and control a whole animal's foraging strategy.

9 Sep 2021

Cherwell Laboratories to highlight developments of ImpactAir® range at the Cleanroom Technology Conference 2021

Cherwell Laboratories specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for pharmaceutical healthcare will be attending Cleanroom Technology Conference 2021.

From Cherwell Laboratories 9 Sep 2021

Optibrium Releases 3D Ligand-based Design Module for StarDrop Drug Discovery Software

Optibrium Ltd today announced the release of the latest version of StarDrop™, its comprehensive software platform for small molecule design.

From Optibrium Ltd. 9 Sep 2021

Restoring beneficial gut microbes to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

The gut microbiome - the collection of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that reside in our gastrointestinal tracts - can impact us in a variety of different ways, from our metabolism to our mood.

9 Sep 2021

Researchers develop artificial inorganic cell-like structures to recreate functions of living cells

Researchers have developed artificial cell-like structures using inorganic matter that autonomously ingest, process, and push out material - recreating an essential function of living cells.

9 Sep 2021

Study finds accumulation of common therapeutic drugs by gut bacteria

Common medications can accumulate in gut bacteria, a new study has found, altering bacterial function and potentially reducing the effectiveness of the drug.

8 Sep 2021

$New tool can rapidly quantify T cell fraction and predict immunotherapy response$

New tool can rapidly quantify T cell fraction and predict immunotherapy response

Scientists at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute, London, have developed a new tool, which can rapidly estimate the number of T cells (immune cells) in a cancerous tumor; with T cell abundance helping predict a patient's response to immunotherapy, researchers are hopeful this could enable more targeted and effective cancer therapies.

8 Sep 2021

Natural killer cells mediate a trade-off between wound healing and bacterial defense

Natural killer cells do not just kill cancer cells or cells infected with viruses, they also mediate a trade-off between wound healing and bacterial defense in skin wounds.

8 Sep 2021

KA Imaging’s Reveal™ 35C Included in WHO Compendium

KA Imaging’s Reveal™ 35C has been included in the WHO's compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings.

From KA Imaging 8 Sep 2021

Scientists model the process of capsid disassembly in hepatitis B virus at atomic level

With up to 2.4 million U.S. cases and over 250 million chronic cases globally, hepatitis B infection persists despite the availability of a vaccine.

8 Sep 2021

Interorgan network plays an essential role in maternal antibody transfer through breastfeeding

Breastfeeding offers an array of benefits for mothers and newborns. Maternal antibodies are transferred via breastfeeding, protecting the gastrointestinal tracts of babies from several pathogen-caused infections.

8 Sep 2021

Understanding how pathogens evolve novel virulence activities

Understanding how pathogens evolve is a fundamental component of learning how to protect ourselves and our world from pests and diseases.

7 Sep 2021

Researchers find potential new target for treating systemic inflammation in obesity

A study led by researchers at the University of Chicago and Indiana University has determined that a protein called elF5A is necessary for driving inflammation in macrophage cells in obesity.

7 Sep 2021

Newly identified mechanism can accelerate the development of STING-activating drugs using imaging

A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that emerging drugs that activate the protein STING, a well-established regulator of immune cell activation, substantially alter the activity of metabolic pathways responsible for generating the nucleotide building blocks for DNA.

7 Sep 2021

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Food science principles help scientists to understand inner workings of cellular compartments

Cellular program could turn T cells into effective cancer killers

IGVF consortium receives NIH funding to study how genomic variation influences biological function

Scientists create a novel cell model for understanding human development

Highly extensive Gut Cell Atlas will transform research into intestinal diseases

Researchers use amphibian foam to deliver drugs for the first time

Salt tasting cells drive food foraging strategy in nematode worms

Cherwell Laboratories to highlight developments of ImpactAir® range at the Cleanroom Technology Conference 2021

Optibrium Releases 3D Ligand-based Design Module for StarDrop Drug Discovery Software

Restoring beneficial gut microbes to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

Researchers develop artificial inorganic cell-like structures to recreate functions of living cells

Study finds accumulation of common therapeutic drugs by gut bacteria

New tool can rapidly quantify T cell fraction and predict immunotherapy response

Natural killer cells mediate a trade-off between wound healing and bacterial defense

KA Imaging’s Reveal™ 35C Included in WHO Compendium

Scientists model the process of capsid disassembly in hepatitis B virus at atomic level

Interorgan network plays an essential role in maternal antibody transfer through breastfeeding

Understanding how pathogens evolve novel virulence activities

Researchers find potential new target for treating systemic inflammation in obesity

Newly identified mechanism can accelerate the development of STING-activating drugs using imaging

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