Biology News Net - Molecular & Cell Biology

EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposa...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2017/03/08/the_proteins_that_domesticated_our_genomes.html

In a first-of-its-kind look at human kidney development, researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have isolated human nephron progenitor (NP) cells. Their re...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/09/12/human_kidney_progenitors_isolated_offering_new_clues_to_cell_renewal.html

Biomedical investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified an enzyme found in all human cells that alerts the body to invading bacteria and jump-starts the immune system.

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/24/scientists_uncover_the_way_a_common_cell_enzyme_alerts_the_body_to_invading_bacteria.html

Atomic resolution studies of two common calcium channel blockers, one that treats irregular heart beats, and another that controls high blood pressure and angina An atomic level analysis has reve...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/24/calcium_channel_blockers_caught_in_the_act_at_atomic_level.html

A single thymic epithelial cell (red) in contact with developing T cells (white). Researchers at the universities of Basel and Oxford have for the first time identified all genes regulated by the...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/22/genetic_regulation_of_the_thymus_function_identified.html

Protective telomeres are augmented by freely diffusing telomerase. As the rope of a chromosomes replicates, it frays at the ends. No problem: A chromosome's ends have extra twine so that fraying ...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/18/nobel_laureate_new_technologies_show_how_cancer_cells_protect_chromosomes_from_decay.html

Ovarian follicle of fruit fly, with chromosomes stained in green and dKDM5 protein stained in red. At the start of reproductive life an ovary contains, on average, several thousands of immature o...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/17/a_molecular_alarm_clock_awakens_resting_ovules.html

The fly brain recognizes and processes movements very quickly and accurately. As indicated by their name, photoreceptor cells in the eye respond to light: is an image point bright or dark? They d...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/10/neuron_unites_2_theoretical_models_on_motion_detection.html

3-D reconstruction of a GluMI cell at the ultrastructural level showing its input (magenta puncta) and output (yellow puncta) obtained using serial block face scanning electron microscopy. In the...

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/08/scientific_serendipity_yields_new_neuron_type_in_mouse_retina.html

Duke Health-led researchers have discovered new information about the signaling mechanism of cells that could one day help guide development of more specific drug therapies.

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/04/duke_team_identifies_new_megacomplex_involved_in_cell_signaling.html