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Human Kidney Organoids Offer New Insights into APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impacts over 700 million individuals globally and arises from a combination of genetic and environmental influences, along with pre-existing health conditions.

3 Oct 2025

New Partnership Brings Next-Generation Cell Isolation Solutions to Researchers Advancing Cell and Gene Therapy Development

Cayman Chemical, a global provider of life science research tools, and Akadeum Life Sciences, a leader in buoyancy-based cell separation technology, announced today a distribution partnership to expand access to Akadeum's next-generation cell isolation technology for cell and gene therapy development.

From Cayman Chemical 3 Oct 2025

New Insights Into How Pathogens Build Protein Machinery for Survival in the Gut

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Liverpool, has revealed how pathogenic bacteria construct tiny protein-based compartments, known as Eut microcompartments, which enable them to digest ethanolamine - a nutrient commonly found in the gut.

3 Oct 2025

Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis with COOKIE-Pro Reveals Drug Affinity and Reactivity

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a powerful new data analysis method named COOKIE-Pro (Covalent Occupancy Kinetic Enrichment via Proteomics) that provides a comprehensive, unbiased view of how a class of drugs, called covalent inhibitors, interacts with proteins throughout the cell.

30 Sep 2025

Scientists Derive Authentic Embryonic Stem Cells From Chickens and Other Birds

Egg whites may be perfect for a health-conscious breakfast, but egg yolks turned out to be the key ingredient for cultivating bird embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in the lab.

30 Sep 2025

Molecular Innovation Behind the Origin of Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems

CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR RNA-guided cleavage.

30 Sep 2025

Actin Scaffold Protects Cancer Cell Nuclei Under Mechanical Stress

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS have demonstrated that an actin scaffold stabilizes the cell nucleus upon mechanical stress.

30 Sep 2025

New SCOPE Tool Transforms Discovery of Gene-Regulating Proteins

A new tool greatly improves scientists' ability to identify and study proteins that regulate gene activity in cells, according to research led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

30 Sep 2025

Chromosome Zippers Rely on DNA Junctions to Safeguard Fertility

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up and swap pieces of DNA in a process called crossing over.

26 Sep 2025

Study Reveals How Lymphatic Cells Preserve Immune Memory

A study published today in Nature Communications describes how lymphatic endothelial cells assist in generating robust immune memory, offering new insights into how the immune system functions.

26 Sep 2025

Protein Networks Expose New Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's

A recent study conducted by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides one of the most thorough insights to date regarding the interactions of brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease, illustrating protein networks that expose communication breakdowns and highlight potential new therapeutic avenues for treatment.

26 Sep 2025

Astrocytes Found to Integrate Signals from Multiple Neurons

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

25 Sep 2025

How Chromosome Crossovers Safeguard Fertility and Genetic Health

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother's womb.

25 Sep 2025

Enhancing Genome Editing Through Systematic CAST Optimization

Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes.

25 Sep 2025

Study Identifies a Cellular Mechanism That Alters the Gut Microbiome

It is well established that gut microbiome composition plays a pivotal role in human health – yet the precise connections are still not fully elucidated.

24 Sep 2025

Breakthrough in Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration with Retinal Stem Cells

In the United States, age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss in people who are 60 and older.

24 Sep 2025

Aurora A Enzyme Guides Proper Nuclear Formation in Dividing Cells

Every time a eukaryotic cell divides, it faces a monumental challenge: It must carefully duplicate and divide its genetic material (chromosomes) equally, and then rebuild the nuclear envelope around the separated halves.

24 Sep 2025

Molecular Fossils Offer Fresh Insights into the Dawn of Biology

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.

24 Sep 2025

New Research Challenges the Static View of Chromosome Shape

An international team of researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London, Waseda University, and the Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research has reshaped the concept of chromosome shape, discovering that they are not always stable X-shaped structures but are constantly in flux as cell division occurs.

24 Sep 2025

Gut Microbes Influence Human Genes and Health

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a new research by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

24 Sep 2025