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Artificial Cells Act More like the Real Thing

December 6, 2019

Living cells are difficult to grow in the laboratory, so researchers sometimes work with synthetic cells, but these have had ...

Enzymes & Reagents for Natural Killer Cell Research

September 13, 2019

Malmberg Lab researchers use AMSBIO reagents and enzymes to detect one distinctive sulfation pattern of Chondr...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Launches New Services for Mammalian Cell Bank Manufacturing

August 8, 2019

Integrated package of new and established services saves time and minimizes risks

Developments in Cell Engineering and Therapy

June 11, 2019

Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, is the director of the Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging at Harvard Medical Schoo...

To Scientists’ Surprise, Organs Are a Mix of Young and Old Cells

June 10, 2019

Salk scientists discover cellular structures with extreme longevity, leading to insights for age-associated diseases

New Understanding of How Cells Form Tunnels May Help in Treating Wounds, Tumors

May 24, 2019

The insight gained by the team's research could guide the design of biomedical solutions for attacking tumors or treating wou...

Merging Cell Datasets, Panorama Style

May 7, 2019

An algorithm stitches multiple datasets into a single “panorama,” which could provide new insights for biological...

A Bad Bout of Flu Triggers 'Taste Bud Cells' to Grow in the Lungs

March 29, 2019

The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function...

Biological Variability Makes Reproducibility More Difficult

March 26, 2019

Research findings based on HeLa cells cannot always be reproduced by other scientists

Hormone Made Our Ancestors Warm-Blooded but Left Us Susceptible to Heart Damage

March 11, 2019

At first glance, there’s no obvious connection between a mammal’s ability to regulate its body temperature and it...

This Immune Cell Function Could Control Deadly Allergic Reactions

February 15, 2019

Scientists have identified a master control mechanism on mast cells that can prevent the immune system from overreacting in t...

Investigating Cell Stress for Better Health—and Better Beer

February 12, 2019

Researchers have devised a new method to study how single biological cells react to stressful situations

This is a Neuron on Nicotine

February 8, 2019

Nicotine works inside cells to reinforce addiction

HIV Hidden in Cells Can Now Be Accurately Measured

January 31, 2019

Current HIV therapy involves combinations of antiretroviral drugs, each of which inhibits a specific stage of the HIV lifecyc...

Our Bodies May Cure Themselves of Diabetes in the Future

January 4, 2019

Researchers have found that neighbor cells can take over functions of damaged or missing insulin-producing cells

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