Most cell signals are chemical in nature. For example, prokaryotic organisms have sensors that detect nutrients and help them navigate toward food sources. In multicellular organisms, growth ...
Credit: Nature Cell Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41556-024-01556-y The Wistar Institute's Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine the ...
Antimicrobial peptides derived from a crab and a spider may provide the pathway to overcoming drug resistance in advanced melanoma.
Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...
A Phase I clinical trial has demonstrated the long-term safety of neural stem cell transplantation for chronic spinal cord ...
QUT researchers based at Brisbane’s Translational Research Institute (TRI) have modified the peptides from the Brazilian tarantula and the Japanese horseshoe crab and found they can kill samples of ...