By crafting an artificial brain-like environment with microscopic nanopillars, researchers have successfully guided neurons to grow in structured networks. This innovation could revolutionize how scie ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists ... Structural variation is a change in ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

In living organisms, protein molecules with different chemical structures called proteoforms, are produced from a single gene ...

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is prominently used for analyzing elemental composition in individual cells. However, the conventional sample introduction system of ICP-MS causes ...

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development. The ...

Scientists reveal how filopodia help cancer spread. The breakthrough could improve treatments that stop cancer cells from invading tissues.

Researchers develop 3D blood-brain barrier model to study Alzheimers and neuroinflammation New platform created to improve ...

Deep within the nucleus of every cell lies a structure smaller than a pinpoint that may hold the secret to aging. Scientists ...

Two Nebraska researchers have launched a startup company aimed at bringing to market an innovative method for delivering therapeutics, gene editing tools, plasmids and more to targeted locations in ...

This manuscript describes the identification and characterization of 12 specific phosphomimetic mutations in the recombinant full-length human tau protein that trigger tau to form fibrils. This ...