NMNAT2 is a key protein required for axon integrity whose rapid depletion following axon injury triggers Wallerian ...

Four University of Rhode Island researchers have developed and tested a cost-effective, easy-to-use tabletop device that can ...

Researchers at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored the regenerative mechanisms behind spinal cord injury (SCI) repair. By constructing ...

Old cells are able to revert to a younger state for a better injury response after radically jettisoning ‘waste’ material, rather than managing it through controlled degradation. Cells eject ‘waste’ ...

Activated T cells that carry a certain marker protein on their surface are controlled by natural killer (NK) cells, another cell type of the immune system. In this way, the body presumably curbs ...

P-cadherin is a protein commonly found on malignant cancer cells and has been used as a target for antibody-based cancer treatments. UC Davis biomedical engineers have discovered that when an antibody ...

A team headed by Johannes Karges has developed a novel metal complex that triggers a form of cell death in cancer cells that has only recently been identified. The research was carried out in Dr.

A research team from the University of Osaka, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has uncovered ...