Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and six days per run

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the ...
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Tubulin May Prevent Against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Tubulin acts as a master regulator, preventing Tau and alpha-synuclein from forming toxic clumps in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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Plant Protein Structure Provides New Insights Into Human Cancer and Better Crops

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

Drug discovery bottleneck? Cell-free platform screens peptides faster, even in harsh conditions

Many biological functions are regulated by the switching on and off of mechanisms triggered by the matching of a keyhole ...

Human liver tissue cell architecture reconstructed in 3D at a cellular level

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

Tubulin prevents toxic protein clumps in the brain, fighting back against neurodegeneration

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a potential new strategy to fight back against Alzheimer's and ...
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Tubulin May Prevent Toxic Protein Clumps in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Researchers found that tubulin can guide Tau and alpha synuclein toward healthy roles in neurons instead of forming toxic aggregates. The findings suggest boosting tubulin levels may help protect ...