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New Insights Into How Toxoplasma Parasites Trigger Host Cell Invasion

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the Whitehead Institute reveals that the parasite doesn't simply recognize a ready-made doorway into the cell. Instead, it helps create the conditions for its own entry.

28 Sep 2026

Genomic Datasets Provide Molecular Foundations for Bat Disease Tolerance

Laurel Yohe, Ph.D., assistant professor of bioinformatics at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is among the co-authors of a landmark study of bat genomes published this week in Nature.

28 Sep 2026

Researchers Engineer Synthetic Plant Receptors to Supercharge Crop Immunity

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's natural immune response.

26 Sep 2026

Chronic Inflammation Linked to Heart Changes and Risks

Chronic inflammation, indicated by GlycA levels, has been linked to heart changes and increased cardiovascular risk, highlighting genetic and environmental interactions.

25 Sep 2026

Multi-Receptor Blocking Achieves Superior Antifibrotic Response Over Single-Receptor Inhibition

Three adenosine receptor subtypes that normally send different signals were found to converge on a common pathway that activates cardiac fibroblasts, the scar-forming cells in the heart. Blocking the receptors together produced a much stronger antifibrotic effect than blocking them one at a time.

25 Sep 2026

Scientists Discover Why High Levels of the Amino Acid Cysteine Are Toxic to Cells

Cysteine is one of the main building blocks that cells use to make proteins. But this amino acid is a double-edged sword–too much cysteine is toxic to the cell.

24 Sep 2026

UCLA Team Develops Advanced Immunotherapy to Fight Dangerous Arterial Plaques

A UCLA research team has engineered a new type of immune cell that attacks atherosclerotic plaques — the fatty buildup inside artery walls that drives most heart attacks and strokes.

23 Sep 2026

Blocking Mitochondrial Iron Transport Protects Cells Against Elevated Cysteine Toxicity

Cysteine is one of the main building blocks that cells use to make proteins.

22 Sep 2026

Infected Macrophages Release Inflammatory Signals That Accelerate Surrounding Lung Infection

In the sickest COVID-19 patients, the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells.

22 Sep 2026

Researchers Reveal How p53 Tumor-Suppressor Protein Hide From T Cells

One of the biggest challenges in cancer immunotherapy may not be that immune cells are too weak, but that some tumors give them too little to see.

18 Sep 2026

New Mathematical Models Track Surface Protein Interactions to Map Evolutionary Terrains

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS‑CoV‑2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed.

15 Sep 2026

Activating TRPC1 Protein Channels With Magnetic Fields Triggers Cancer Phagocytosis

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated an innovative approach for targeted breast cancer therapy using pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs).

15 Sep 2026

Icosagen Develops Manufacturing-Ready CHO Cell Line for EPOK Therapeutics' Complex Tetravalent Antibody-Like Protein

Icosagen, a private European protein therapeutics CRDMO, and EPOK Therapeutics Inc., a pre-clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, based in Toronto, Canada, today announced the successful completion of a development project for EPOK's novel antibody EPRA-0322.

From Icosagen 15 Sep 2026

Study Uncovers Hidden Human "Dark Proteome" Members Across Protein Models

Hundreds of millions of proteins make up the known protein universe, but most remain largely unexplored. Inside the human body, thousands of these dark proteins remain mysteries. Scientists may know they exist, but not what they do or why they matter.

12 Sep 2026

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism Behind Persistent Obesity and Weight Relapse

Two enduring biological mysteries have remained unsolved for decades: why almost everyone who loses weight gains it back, no matter how they lost it, and why obesity passes from mother to child at rates that diet and environment cannot explain. Now, scientists from Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University have identified why.

11 Sep 2026

Molecular Circuit Linking Abscisic Acid Signaling to Tanshinone Production Uncovered

Salvia miltiorrhiza, also known as Danshen, is a highly regarded traditional Chinese medicine widely used for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Its medicinal properties are largely attributed to tanshinones-a group of more than 40 diterpenoid quinone compounds, including tanshinone I, tanshinone IIA, and cryptotanshinone, which predominantly accumulate in the plant's roots.

11 Sep 2026

UCLA Breakthrough Generates Thousands of Allogeneic T-Cell Doses From Single Cord Blood Sample

T cell receptor, or TCR, therapy is a cancer treatment that genetically reprograms immune cells, called T cells, to hunt down cancer with precision.

9 Sep 2026

Loss of Matrix Receptors Impairs Actin Cytoskeleton Remodeling, Cell Spreading, and Osteogenic Differentiation

During bone healing, skeletal progenitor cells (SPCs), which can multiply and develop into bone-forming cells, move to the injury site and help build new bone.

9 Sep 2026

New Platform Promises Rapid Vaccine Monitoring and Biomarker Discovery for Emerging Pathogens

A research team comprising Associate Professor FUNAKOSHI Yohei, Associate Professor YAKUSHIJIN Kimikazu, Professor MINAMI Hironobu, and Associate Professor OHJI Goh of Kobe University, together with graduate student MASUDA Genki, then-graduate student IIZUMI Shunsuke, Associate Professor OHUE Masahito, and colleagues at the Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a new analysis method, LM-QASAS.

9 Sep 2026

Ancient DNA Reveals Famous Extinct Feline Was Actually Fish Eating Puma

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has overturned decades of assumptions about Miracinonyx trumani, the extinct predator popularly known as the American cheetah.

7 Sep 2026

Receptor News and Research

New Insights Into How Toxoplasma Parasites Trigger Host Cell Invasion

Genomic Datasets Provide Molecular Foundations for Bat Disease Tolerance

Researchers Engineer Synthetic Plant Receptors to Supercharge Crop Immunity

Chronic Inflammation Linked to Heart Changes and Risks

Multi-Receptor Blocking Achieves Superior Antifibrotic Response Over Single-Receptor Inhibition

Scientists Discover Why High Levels of the Amino Acid Cysteine Are Toxic to Cells

UCLA Team Develops Advanced Immunotherapy to Fight Dangerous Arterial Plaques

Blocking Mitochondrial Iron Transport Protects Cells Against Elevated Cysteine Toxicity

Infected Macrophages Release Inflammatory Signals That Accelerate Surrounding Lung Infection

Researchers Reveal How p53 Tumor-Suppressor Protein Hide From T Cells

New Mathematical Models Track Surface Protein Interactions to Map Evolutionary Terrains

Activating TRPC1 Protein Channels With Magnetic Fields Triggers Cancer Phagocytosis

Icosagen Develops Manufacturing-Ready CHO Cell Line for EPOK Therapeutics' Complex Tetravalent Antibody-Like Protein

Study Uncovers Hidden Human "Dark Proteome" Members Across Protein Models

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism Behind Persistent Obesity and Weight Relapse

Molecular Circuit Linking Abscisic Acid Signaling to Tanshinone Production Uncovered

UCLA Breakthrough Generates Thousands of Allogeneic T-Cell Doses From Single Cord Blood Sample

Loss of Matrix Receptors Impairs Actin Cytoskeleton Remodeling, Cell Spreading, and Osteogenic Differentiation

New Platform Promises Rapid Vaccine Monitoring and Biomarker Discovery for Emerging Pathogens

Ancient DNA Reveals Famous Extinct Feline Was Actually Fish Eating Puma

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