The microbes living in your food can affect your risk of cancer. While some help your body fight cancer, others help tumors evolve and grow.
Evolution
Jan 31, 2023
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By using artificial human skin, a research group from the University of Copenhagen have managed to block invasive growth in a skin cancer model.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2023
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One of the most important classes of human enzymes are protein kinases—signaling molecules that regulate nearly all cellular activities, including growth, cell division, and metabolism. Dysfunction in these cellular pathways ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2023
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Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz may have discovered new insights into how cancer cells regulate the ends of their chromosomes, called telomeres. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
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To make new cells, we have to divide existing ones. This is a continuous, frequent and ubiquitous process which starts at conception and ends at death. There are an estimated 37 trillion cells in the tissues and organs of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 28, 2022
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Cancer cells use an unusual mechanism to migrate into new tissue and form metastases there. The same process probably also keeps some immune cells on their toes. This is the result of a recent study led by the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 14, 2022
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"I'm a professional pin-in-a-haystack seeker," geneticist Thijn Brummelkamp responds when asked why he excels at tracking down proteins and genes that other people did not find, despite the fact that some have managed to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2022
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A new study led by Claus M. Azzalin, group leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes- iMM and published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows, for the first time, that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 19, 2022
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Recent advances in imaging technology have made it possible to visualize intracellular dynamics, which offers a better understanding of several key biological principles for accelerating therapeutic development. Fluorescent ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2022
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Scientists have discovered how naturally occurring but unstable molecules, known as free radicals, can control the fundamental process of cell division, which, when it goes wrong, can lead to uncontrolled cell growth and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 27, 2022
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