Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...
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Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Lineage Tracing Unveil Parallels in Lymphatic Muscle and Venous Smooth Muscle Development, Identity, and Function

Lymphatic muscle cells (LMCs) are indispensable for lymphatic vessel contraction, and their aberrant recruitment or absence is associated with both primary and secondary lymphedema. Despite their ...
SciTech Daily

This Hidden 3D DNA Structure Changes What We Know About Cells

MIT researchers have found that tiny DNA loops persist even as cells divide, challenging the idea that the genome resets during mitosis. These structures may explain how cells retain genetic ...
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Function of Cell Surface glycoRNAs Identified

Five years ago, Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, and her team described novel small RNA-glycan conjugates, glycosylated RNAs (glycoRNAs), on the cell surface. These small non-coding RNAs have ...
SciTech Daily

Researchers Restore Brain Cell Function in Parkinson’s Models

Scientists have uncovered a previously hidden biological interaction that helps explain why brain cells die in Parkinson’s disease and how that damage might be stopped. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists ...
Interesting Engineering

90% output at 90°C: Perovskite solar cells survive 1,500 hours of extreme heat test

Representational image: In the future, solar panels can last much longer than a few years.Getty Images In the future, solar panels can last much longer than a few years. Researchers from Purdue and ...
News Medical

Scientists reverse aging in blood stem cells by restoring lysosome function

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered how to reverse aging in blood-forming stem cells in mice by correcting defects in the stem cell's lysosomes. The breakthrough ...
Interesting Engineering

New control over atomic structure of perovskites could transform solar cells, LEDs, lasers

Researchers found they could tune the energy difference between the layers by more than half an electron volt. (Representational image)LE/Pencho Researchers’ new method that delivers more control over ...
Medical Xpress

Gene therapy for sickle cell and β-thalassemia works by disrupting three-dimensional genome structure

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...
eLife

Ex vivo and in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screenings identify the roles of protein N-glycosylation in regulating T-cell activation and functions

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, public reviews, and a provisional response from the authors. The study by Yu et al ...
New Atlas

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may have more in common than we thought

Researchers have uncovered a shared brain cell breakdown mechanism behind Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, revealing how two different proteins can disrupt neurons in the same devastating way.