A research team led by Professor Li Min, Director of the Teaching and Research Division (CMTR), and Director of the Mr and Mrs Ko Chi Ming Centre for Parkinson's Disease Research under the School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) ...
Feb 17, 2017
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A drug developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center extends the effectiveness of multiple HIV therapies by unleashing a cell's own protective machinery on the virus. The finding, published today in the Journal ...
Jan 30, 2017
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After her brain cancer became resistant to chemotherapy and then to targeted treatments, 26-year-old Lisa Rosendahl's doctors gave her only a few months to live. Now a paper published January 17 in the journal eLife describes ...
Jan 17, 2017
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Centrosomes play an essential role in cell division by organizing the protein framework on which chromosomes assemble and then separate prior to division into daughter cells. Centrosomes are made up of a pair of centrioles, ...
Nov 29, 2016
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The inability of cells to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles following the blockage of a coronary artery and its subsequent re-opening with angioplasty or medications - a sequence known as ischemia/reperfusion - often ...
Nov 17, 2016
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New insight about how cells dispose of their waste is now given by the group of Claudine Kraft at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna. They show the necessity of a regulation in space and time ...
Oct 20, 2016
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Autophagy, the little-understood method by which human cells dispose of harmful waste and unwelcome intruders, may one day be central to therapies for longer, healthier living, experts said.
Oct 3, 2016
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Some people are drawn to the flashy and popular, but Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi isn't one of them.
Oct 3, 2016
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Melanoma is one of the types of cancer that poses the greatest challenge to researchers because it manifests in many ways, it contains a large number of mutations and displays high metastatic capacity. To date, clinicians ...
Sep 7, 2016
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By triggering a process called autophagy—in which cells literally engulf their own insides —researchers from Drexel University and Yale University were able to decrease lung injury in mice that were exposed to high concentrations ...
Jul 19, 2016
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