All Cell Biology
How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions
Added: 7 Aug 2020
Steve Walton, explains why he believes the majority of patients that die after being infected with …
Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human
Added: 5 Aug 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…
AI transformation in a post-pandemic world
Added: 3 Aug 2020
Ross Upton considers how COVID-19 is driving the use of AI to protect and transform public health n…
Cryogenic electron microscopy freeze-frames SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Added: 22 Jul 2020
The rod-like spike proteins on the surface of SARS CoV-2 are the tip of the spear of the COVID-19 p…
New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
Added: 14 Jul 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and …
Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the c…
New method reveals how Parkinson's protein damages cell membranes
Added: 2 Jul 2020
In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as th…
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…
Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer
Added: 28 May 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzym…
How to fast without having to fast
Added: 28 May 2020
As modern lifestyles and high calorie diets drive the UK's obesity levels up, researchers from the …
Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…
Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…
A question of reagents
Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020
At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…
Knowing a lot about very little
Added: 19 Aug 2019
The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don’t know much abo…
Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…
Porous rocks support prebiotic evolution theory
Added: 7 Aug 2019
The water-air interface found at pores in volcanic rocks could have been the location of the chemic…
3D-printed collagen forms functioning heart parts
Added: 6 Aug 2019
A new bioprinting method allows anyone to 3D-print functioning components of the human heart.
Game Theory: Linkage
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column the newest recruits to the Lab News team, Dr…
Algal biofuels face diverse pathogens
Added: 24 Jul 2019
DNA analysis of a predatory bacterium has revealed a much higher level of genetic diversity than pr…
Beyond the code
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Genomics has been revolutionary – but have we forgotten cell biology in the push for an ever more r…
