A new study by Waldemar Gorski, professor and chair of the UTSA Department of Chemistry, and Stanton McHardy, associate professor of research in chemistry and…
Mitochondria are the vital organelles that deliver energy to all cells and mitochondrial damage has been found, for example, in brain imaging of bipolar…
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,” essentially the energy that can be extracted…
In a previous study, published in Science in 2011, Jan Deussing’s group revealed for the first time that corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) signaling in…
A breakthrough new technique enables scientists to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells.
Two joint projects between labs at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria and at French research institutes, funded by the Austrian Science Fund…
Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human…
ROS are frequently formed in mitochondria – the power factories of the cells. Mitochondria-targeted antioxidants, including SkQ ions, affect mitochondria…
Dr. Thomas Hainmüller and Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Freiburg have established a new model to explain how the…
Dolphins are intelligent creatures that communicate with high-frequency whistles and are capable of forming strong relationships. Within their population, male…
Restriction factors inhibit viral infection and proliferation (replication) in body cells. SAMHD1 (sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartate…
Researchers identify the dominant immune cells contributing to tumour tolerance by the immune system
Silencing the tumour-shielding cells of the immune system…
Even in adult brains, new neurons are generated throughout a lifetime. In a publication in the scientific journal PNAS, a research group led by Goethe…
The human intestine constantly renews itself. Alone in the colon – the last 1.5 meters of the gastrointestinal tract – 10 billion epithelial cells are replaced…
Social species engage in a number of cooperative activities including hunting, raising offspring, defending the group against predators, and fighting with…
Unsteady hands, stiff muscles and slow movements—all these are typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Some 220,000 people in Germany are affected by the…
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