Inside every human cell, 2 meters of DNA must be tightly packed into a tiny nucleus. This DNA is wrapped around proteins to form chromatin, which exists in two main forms: euchromatin, where genes ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood ...

Movie 1: Movement of single nucleosomes in living human ... cells is still not well understood," says Katsuhiko Minami, the first author of this study. "Until now, we lacked a way to specifically ...

The study sheds new light on how the Chagas Disease parasite invades human cells—a crucial step towards developing effective treatments for this neglected tropical disease. Chagas Disease ...

Human cell models may never be as good as the real thing, but we need these models to be as close as possible to understand how diseases develop and progress, and whether treatments are effective.

The average human cell ... breaking cells open, separating their contents across a density gradient and digesting the proteins from each sample using enzymes. Next, they label each sample with ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. " We know each of the ...

Imagine walking into a grocery store where every product has a clear carbon label: “The making of a pound of beef produces 130 pounds, or 59 kilograms, of greenhouse gases and could ultimately take ...

UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers have created a comprehensive map of the human U2OS cell. The map revealed previously unknown functions of proteins including C18orf21 (pictured). Photo ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — New multidisciplinary research shows that the brain forms memories of cold experiences and uses them to control our metabolism. The study shows that cold memories form in the ...

We recently described the possibility to exploit custom human stem cell lines for eECM manufacturing. In addition to the conferred standardization, the availability of such cell lines opened avenues ...