14-01-13 Harvard stem cells scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT can now engineer cells that are more easily controlled following transplantation, potentially making cell therapies, hundreds of which are currently in clinical trials across the...

13-12-23 Scientists from The University of Manchester -- part of Manchester Cancer Research Centre believe they have discovered a new way to make chemotherapy treatment more effective for pancreatic cancer patients. Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer...

13-12-18 Scientists say they have been able to successfully print new eye cells that could be used to treat sight loss. 科学家称，他们已经可以成功打印眼球细胞用于治疗失明。 Many teams are researching different ways to repair the sight-giving cells of the ret...

13-12-13 Bacteria can evolve rapidly to adapt to environmental change. When the environment is the immune response of an infected host, this evolution can turn harmless bacteria into life-threatening pathogens. A study published on December 12 in PLOS Pathog...

13-11-14 Johns Hopkins researchers report that the deletion of any single gene in yeast cells puts pressure on the organism's genome to compensate（补偿，赔偿） , leading to a mutation in another gene. Their discovery, which is likely applicable to human gen...

13-11-06 Results from a recent preclinical study have shown that a new drug combination therapy being developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center effectively killed colon, liver, lung, kidney, breast and brain cancer cells while having...

13-11-06 We use aluminum to make planes lightweight, store sodas in recyclable containers, keep the walls of our homes energy efficient and ensure that the Thanksgiving turkey is cooked to perfection. Now, thanks to a group of Japanese researchers, there may...

13-10-25 Just as our bodies have skeletons, so do our cells. They're equally indispensible（不可缺少的） in both cases. Without our bony skeletons we'd go limp and fall down. And without our cytoskeletons（细胞骨架） , our cells, which come in roughly 200 di...

13-10-24 Cells in the human body change shape as they crawl, split, or cling to other surfaces, but while the scientific literature is filled with examples of how cell shapes shift in response to things they touch, little is known about the rules that govern...

13-10-23 The current global epidemic of obesity-linked diabetes and its associated consequences -cardiovascular, neurological and renal（肾脏的） diseases -- is a growing public health problem for which therapeutic options are limited. In obesity, fatty acid...