

Nobel Prize–Winning Biologist Dies
Nobel Prize–Winning Biologist Dies Günter Blobel, known for his work on the signal hypothesis of protein targeting, has died from cancer...


Stem Cell Vaccine Protects Mice From Cancer
Stem Cell Vaccine Protects Mice From Cancer Stem cells and cancer cells have enough molecular similarities that the former can be used to...


3D printing of living cells
3D printing of living cells Date: February 1, 2018 Source: University of Twente (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201092...


A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA Shape-shifting drives mutation rate behind evolution, disease...


Pocket-Size Nanopore Device Sequences Entire Human Genome
Pocket-Size Nanopore Device Sequences Entire Human Genome MinION achieved the longest reads of DNA sequences to date. By Jim Daley |...


High-Throughput Epigenetics Analyses
High-Throughput Epigenetics Analyses Emerging technologies help researchers draw mechanistic links between metabolism and epigenetic...


Researchers Identify Obesity-Diabetes Link
Researchers Identify Obesity-Diabetes Link Exosomes produced by macrophages in fatty tissue influence insulin sensitivity in distant cell...


Researchers Make Knockout Stem Cell Lines in One Step
Researchers Make Knockout Stem Cell Lines in One Step Combining gene editing and stem-cell induction improves efficiency of functional...


Hormone Loss Prevents Obesity and Diabetes in Mice
Hormone Loss Prevents Obesity and Diabetes in Mice Asprosin—involved in a rare disease called neonatal progeroid syndrome—targets neurons...


Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune Cells
Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune Cells A team has engineered two stem cell lines into “synthetic T cells” that...