Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process, involves degrading and recycling damaged organelles, proteins, and ...

The yeast cells act as microscopic factories, capable of producing therapeutic compounds or breaking down complex substances into simpler, usable forms. By responding dynamically to disease ...

Bioengineered yeast microbes as targeted drug delivery systems Date: December 16, 2024 Source: National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Summary: Researchers have developed ...

Smaller nucleoli slow aging, acting as a "mortality timer," while larger nucleoli lead to cell death by destabilizing rDNA. The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus—a ...

Slime is perhaps best known for its starring role on Nickelodeon, but what is this versatile substance? Definitions of slime ...

Your immune cells are what they eat Scientists establish novel link between cell nutrition and identity, say targeting nutrient-dependent activity could improve immunotherapies Date: December 12 ...

and the platform had uncovered several promising candidates validated through experiments on yeast, worms (C. elegans), and human cell models. A fraction of them, less than 1%, have been ...

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This important study leverages the power of Drosophila genetics and sparsely-labeled neurons to propose a new model for neuronal injury signaling. The authors present convincing evidence to support ...