New Mechanism for Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells
Cancer drug resistance is usually controlled through chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Unlike chemotherapy that inhibits cell proliferation, targeted therapy blocks a single, consistent pathway of ...
Could Stem Cells Help Patients with the Novel Coronavirus Disease?
Since December 2019, 2019-nCoV infection has become an urgent public health event worldwide. There are currently no vaccines or specific antiviral treatments for 2019-nCoV infection. Although ...
Bacteria for PET Degradation Discovered
Scientists from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan) found a species of bacteria that can grow on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and treat it as the energy and carbon source, providing a biologic ...
New Understanding of the Sense of Smell in Cells
A common problem faced by cells is that they are surrounded by a promising cloud of smell, and you must determine the direction of their origin. For example, nerve cells, forming long extensions, are ...
Study: Genetic Mutations Found in 8.5% of Children with Cancer
In recent years, our understanding of childhood cancer has become more and more profound, and the challenge that doctors are now faced with is how to better use the knowledge to provide treatment and ...
Newly Developed 'Super Natural Killers' Can Destroy Cancer in Lymph Nodes
Recently, biomedical engineers at Cornell University have developed a type of specialized white blood cells- called "super natural killer cells" that can seek and destroy lymph node cancer cells. ...
New Research Found Bacteria Communicate with Each Other like Nerve Cells in the Brain
The human brain is known as the supreme masterpiece of evolution while the bacteria is often viewed as low, inferior individuals. It seems that there are huge differences between them. However, ...
Scientists Discovered A New Way to Starve Lung Cancer Cells
Lung cancer, one of the cancers with the highest morbidity and mortality, is a malignant tumor that seriously harms human health. A new study recently published in the journal Molecular Cell has ...
New Surprising Discovery of Cancer Metastasis: 'Reversible' Tumor Suppressor Loss
It is no surprise that people prefer to be in a warm place like Hawaii other than suffering harsh environments in Antarctica. Similarly, the PTEN, a tumor suppressor gene, is also influenced by the ...
Nature: Sleep Deprivation Has a Great Impact on Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Mice
A recent study led by the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that a lack of sleep has serious implications for stem cell function. If marrow transplant donor is lack of sleep, transplant ...