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Cell shape influences antibiotic resistance
Added: 3 Feb 2021
A broad, curvy shape has a lower surface-to-volume ratio and is less susceptible to surface invasio…
Why cells don't get stuck - generalised cell migration and motility modelled mathematically
Added: 22 Jan 2021
Cell movement has now been mathematically modelled by an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and …
Laser-triggered chemical adhesion for tissue engineering of replacement organs
Added: 19 Jan 2021
Laser-triggered chemical adhesion used to build proteins onto biological polymer scaffolding to bri…
RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny
Added: 22 Dec 2020
How does the cell know when to stop transcribing? What is the purpose of noncoding RNAs? Another wi…
Targeted microbubbles for controlled cancer treatment
Added: 10 Dec 2020
Targeted cancer treatment just got a navigation system. A research team from Leeds has successfully…
Extracting a novel biochemical reservoir from between our skin cells
Added: 26 Nov 2020
We're all used to the fact that there is so much more to learn about how our own bodies work, but i…
Cambridge bioscience partnership seeks rising stars in AI
Added: 17 Nov 2020
Calling all bright young things as a multi-disciplined partnership of globally reknowned academic a…
An artificial cell on a chip
Added: 28 Oct 2020
Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a precisely controllable system for mimicking…
Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…
Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human
Added: 5 Aug 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…
Cryogenic electron microscopy freeze-frames SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Added: 22 Jul 2020
The rod-like spike proteins on the surface of SARS CoV-2 are the tip of the spear of the COVID-19 p…
New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
Added: 14 Jul 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and …
Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the c…
New method reveals how Parkinson's protein damages cell membranes
Added: 2 Jul 2020
In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as th…
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…
How to fast without having to fast
Added: 28 May 2020
As modern lifestyles and high calorie diets drive the UK's obesity levels up, researchers from the …
Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer
Added: 28 May 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzym…
Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…
Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…
Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…
