New DNA tetrahedron nanostructures improve targeted cancer therapy delivery
Conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, often lack specificity and can damage both cancerous and healthy cells, leading…
Study potentially opens a new route to more selective cancer drug design
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a previously hidden druggable site in…
Cellular reprogramming helps outsmart progressive Alzheimers disease
A team led by researcher José Vicente Sánchez Mut at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center…
Study links fathers’ preconception stress to altered offspring development
Research from the University of Colorado Anschutz suggests that stress experienced by a father before conception may influence…
Controlling quantum properties with dry ice
Molecules exist in various energy configurations called quantum states. The laws of physics that govern if and…
Intercellular heme transfer pathway sustains red blood cell production under stress
Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they…
Fibroblast subtype found to be essential for coordinating immune cells within lymph nodes
The research group of Prof. Sanjiv Luther at the Department of Immunobiology of the University of Lausanne has…
Scientists identify STING switch driving inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of…
L-arginine stabilizes protein droplets and prevents harmful fibril formation
Protein droplets serve important biological functions within cells, but in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, these liquid-like droplets can…
Kenyan bat coronavirus uses human CEACAM6 to enter cells, raising spillover concerns
A newly characterized bat coronavirus can latch onto a human cell receptor found in the lung, giving scientists…
New molecule weakens glioblastoma and enhances immune response
A team of researchers from Brown University Health and Brown University has uncovered an important clue in the…
Researchers discover how cell membrane composition drives cancer proliferation
Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell…