News tagged with cell cytoplasm

How protein networks stabilize muscle fibers: Same mechanism as for DNA

The same mechanism that stabilises the DNA in the cell nucleus is also important for the structure and function of vertebrate muscle cells. This has been established by RUB-researchers led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linke (Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Built-in 'self-destruct timer' causes ultimate death of messenger RNA in cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA) -- arguably biology's most important molecule. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Control gene for developmental timing discovered

University of Alberta researchers have identified a key regulator that controls the speed of development in the fruit fly. When the researchers blocked the function of this regulator, animals sped up their rate of development ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technique elucidates dynamics of plant cell metabolites

A new technique developed by researchers at RIKEN has clarified the location and dynamics of specific metabolites in a single cell of the alga Chara australis. The findings reveal that these metabolites are re ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lawson researchers take control of cancer

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, one in four Canadians will die of cancer. This year alone, the disease will kill an estimated 75,000 people. With incidence rates on the rise, more cancer patients are facing grave ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shedding light on cell mechanism which plays a role in such diseases as Huntington's and Parkinson's

(Medical Xpress) -- New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge provides critical insight into the formation of autophagosomes, which are responsible for cleaning up cellular waste.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weill Institute researchers uncover basic cell pathway

Although all cells in an organism have the same DNA, cells function differently based on the genes they express. While most studies of gene expression focus on activities in the cell's nucleus, a new Cornell study finds that ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique sheds light on the mysterious process of cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a new technique in which models of primitive cells are constructed from the bottom up, scientists have demonstrated that the structure of a cell's membrane and cytoplasm may be as important ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cell viscosity research improves our knowledge of cancer cells

EU-funded researchers from Germany and Poland have made some groundbreaking discoveries about cell cytoplasm viscosity, which could further our knowledge of the cytoplasm of cancer cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

RNA spurs melanoma development

Traditionally, RNA was mostly known as the messenger molecule that carries protein-making instructions from a cell's nucleus to the cytoplasm. But scientists now estimate that approximately 97 percent of human RNA doesn't ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Salmonella utilize multiple modes of infection

Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have discovered a new, hitherto unknown mechanism of Salmonella invasion into gut cells: In this entry mode, the bacteria exploit the mu ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists engineer nanoscale vaults to encapsulate 'nanodisks' for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's no question, drugs work in treating disease. But can they work better, and safer?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How molecules get to the right place at the right time

Active transport processes in cells ensure that proteins with specialized local functions reach their intracellular destinations. Impaired transport causes cellular dysfunction or even cell death. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease

One bad apple is all it takes to spoil the barrel. And one misfolded protein may be all that's necessary to corrupt other proteins, forming large aggregations linked to several incurable neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In scientific first, researchers visualize naturally occurring mRNA

In a technique that could eventually shed light on how gene expression influences human disease, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time ever successfully visualized ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast