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Super-Resolution DNA Imaging Platform Links Chromatin Loosening to Tumor Progression

Scientists have engineered fluorescent molecules enabling the visualization of DNA organization within living cells with unparalleled resolution, and in fixed cells, nearly the width of the double helix itself.

31 Aug 2026

Moving Beyond DNA Sequencing Unlocks New Paths Managing Human Health

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco, and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a massive, high-resolution functional map of human immune cells that promises to transform our understanding of how genetics control health and disease.

31 Aug 2026

Tiny Cell Structures Called Peroxisomes Protect Vital Human Insulin Supply

Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified a previously underappreciated role for tiny structures inside cells called peroxisomes in protecting insulin and maintaining the health and maturity of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells.

31 Aug 2026

Malva Platform Locates Pathogens and Tumor Driving Cells in Seconds

Imagine doctors had the potential to understand exactly what cells caused a patient's cancer, or whether pathogens contributed to the disease.

31 Aug 2026

Scientists Find Cancer Gene Forcing Zombie Cells to Cause Aging

In a tale of identities as divergent as "The Prince and the Pauper," a well-known cancer-causing gene also influences cells in a zombie-like state meant to prevent cancer.

31 Aug 2026

Researchers Identify Early Molecular Warning Signs of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Researchers have uncovered early molecular warning signs of inflammatory bowel disease, revealing the condition can begin before symptoms appear and continue silently even when patients appear well.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 29 Aug 2026

Primate-Specific DNA Change Reveals a New Link to Dementia-Related Neurodegeneration

Brain diseases, including dementia, have long been studied using experimental animals such as mice. However, differences between the human and animal genomes have raised concerns that some disease mechanisms may not be fully explained by conventional animal models.

29 Aug 2026

OIST Scientists Uncover Fleeting Sugar Pairs Regulating Cell Division

Acting as an armor, a scaffold, and a communication platform in one, our cells' plasma membrane lies at the heart of many crucial cellular processes.

28 Aug 2026

Cellular Glue Helps Engulf Dying Cells

A protein which sticks cells and tissues together has been found to have a surprising second job: helping cells which are packed into a continuous sealed layer, also known as epithelial cells, engulf nearby dead cells.

28 Aug 2026

Genetic Toolkit Helps Researchers Map Single Neurons in Fruit Flies

Our brains constantly integrate information about both our internal state and our surroundings to determine how we behave.

28 Aug 2026

New Study Reveals How Brain Tags Important Memories During Sleep

Why do we remember certain moments while forgetting others? Every day, our minds are bombarded with thousands of pieces of information, yet our brains have a limited capacity to consolidate these experiences into lasting memories.

28 Aug 2026

Newly Found Fibroblasts Help Lung Tumors Evade Immune System

Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a new type of cell that protects lung cancers from attacks by the immune system.

28 Aug 2026

Antarctic Soil Microbes Are Frequently Picking Up Genes for Turning Air Into Energy

Antarctica is one of the driest, coldest places on Earth and long ago its soil microbes were largely dismissed as static or inactive, asleep in the harsh conditions – but new research has revealed that is decidedly not the case.

28 Aug 2026

Researchers Outline Quantitative Principles of Cell Signaling Time Codes

For decades, biologists assumed that cells transmit instructions mainly through the concentration of signaling molecules - the higher the level, the stronger the response.

27 Aug 2026

Mutation Stalls Immature Brain Cell Maturation Leading to Aggressive Gliomas

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have shown that specific brain cells respond differently to the H3.3 K27M, a mutation in the histone H3.3 protein that drives many cases of diffuse midline glioma (DMG), depending on the cell's location in the developing brain.

27 Aug 2026

Engineering Stem-Cell-Derived Immune Cells to Teach T Cells to Fight Cancer

The human body contains vast numbers of T cells capable of seeking out and eliminating malignancies if they were properly activated. Currently, a group from UC San Francisco has developed a technique to achieve this by merging laboratory-cultivated immune cells with samples from a person's malignancy.

26 Aug 2026