Cell Biology News

A scientist at Southern Illinois University's School of Medicine has been awarded a three-year federal grant from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.

Telomeres, the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of linear chromosomes, have an important function: They protect vulnerable chromosome ends from molecular attack.

Jul 9, 2009 - BioTime, Inc. today announced that Millipore Corporation and BioTime's subsidiary Embryome Sciences, Inc., have entered into a co-marketing agreement whereby Millipore will become a worldwide distributor of ACTCellerate human progenitor cell lines.

Researchers of the University of Granada have used a technique consisting of the induction of neuronal degeneration neuronal for intense light exposure in the mouse's retina that will be helpful for the study of retinitis pigmentosa , a group of hereditary diseases which lead to blindness and affect more than one million persons a year all over the ...

Invitrogen, part of Life Technologies Corporation , today announced the launch of the life-science industry's first comprehensive online resource for cell biology information and technology.

Governor David Paterson announced the availability of $21.5 million in state funding for stem cell research in New York State through the release of two Requests for Applications .

Researchers at Newcastle University in England report they have coaxed the first human sperm cells from embryonic stem cells, in a remarkable demonstration of how quickly the field of stem-cell science is moving.

Blunting criticism from stem cell advocates, the Obama administration on Monday released rules that broaden the number of stem cell lines that can receive federal funding.

Today the National Institutes of Health released their final guidelines detailing what types of human embryonic stem cell research will qualify for federal funding.

The U.S. government is creating a master list to identify which embryonic stem cells qualify for government-funded research now that President Barack Obama has lifted restrictions on the field.

Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a prestigious EMBO installation grant, of 50,000 euro per year, for a maximum of five years.

Langone Medical Center was established in January 2005. The mission of the Kimmel Stem Cell Center is to establish a world-class, multidisciplinary research center focusing on the basic biology of stem cells in animal as well as human cell-based models.

Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes.

Jennifer DeLuca, a faculty researcher in the biochemistry and molecular biology department, sits with her microscope inside of her lab on Tuesday.

In the June 29, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Matthew McConnell, Matthew Tyska, and colleagues now find that microvilli extend their functional reach even further using a molecular motor to send vesicles packed with gut enzymes out into the lumen to get a head start on breaking down their substrates.

NEW NEW Abstract Dying cells often display a large-scale accumulation of autophagosomes and hence adopt a morphology called autophagic cell death.

Experiment after experiment confirms that a diet on the brink of starvation expands lifespan in mice and many other species.

Mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells. Underneath their smooth surface they harbor an elaborately folded inner membrane.

In a break from established ethical consensus, the state of New York has decided that women can be paid for donating eggs for research.

In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report that a new finding about the Notch signaling pathway in sensory organ precursor cells in the fruit fly could explain the mystery behind an immunological disorder called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.