Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published July 12, 2018. In recent years, it’s become increasingly apparent that most of what we refer to as health and disease really links back to the function of your mitochondria — tiny organelles inside your cells that play an important role in the production… Read More: How Aging Affects Mitochondria in Brain Cells »
Cells, like many of us, fend off germs with cleaning products. Researchers have discovered that a molecule made throughout much of the body wipes out invading bacteria like a detergent attacking an oily stain. This killer cleaner, a protein known as APOL3, thwarts infections by dissolving bacterial membranes, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator John MacMicking… Read More: Human cells harness power of detergents to wipe out bacteria »
What if your human cancer cells do not undergo apoptosis, but simply continue to divide and grow? Although we frequently think residing all the time might be extraordinary, it is not great when it happens in your cells. When the damaged cells divide continuously and do no longer undergo normal apoptosis, the result is most… Read More: Apoptosis and Cancer: Cancer Cells Treatment »
Pennsylvania, August 24: A new study shows that in human brain cells, the atypical development starts at the very earliest stages of brain organization, at the level of individual brain cells. The study from scientists at King’s College London and Cambridge University, UK appears in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier. Also Read | Penis Problems: Is… Read More: Autistic People’s Nerve Cells Differ Before Birth, Says Study »