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Researchers have developed an innovative CAR T-cell therapy to combat glioblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in ...

Researchers at New York University have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals—a critical step ...

Researchers from the Mattiroli group have found that the way DNA is packaged in cells can directly impact how fast DNA itself ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist?

The key to three-dimensional plant architecture lies in precise control over the orientation of cell division. Plant cells ...

Chromatin as a guide Every day, our cells divide. Each time they need to copy both their DNA and the structure in which the DNA is packed. This packaging, called chromatin, acts as a guide. It tells ...

Glioblastoma is the most common kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. So far, no treatment has been able to make this ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

A healthy brain balances "activate" and "inhibit" signaling in its neural microcircuitry, with the inhibitory signaling often provided by cell ...

Producing herbal medicines on an industrial scale is challenging. However, a team of bioengineers from Kobe University has ...