Did you know that a small molecule called NAD+ plays a critical role in our aging process? A deficiency of this molecule may ...

In a recent study, Associate Professor Makoto Ikeya (Department of Clinical Application) and his team of researchers ...

Organ-on-a-chip systems offer a more accurate, ethical, and scalable alternative to animal testing in drug discovery and ...

Cold weather triggers brown fat to burn energy, thanks to a newly discovered protein switch. This natural calorie-burning ...

Shift Bioscience (Shift), a biotechnology company uncovering the biology of cell rejuvenation to develop new therapies for ...

The open benchmark competition will evaluate the ability of AI-powered virtual cell models to generalize to new cell contexts ...

A model developed by LMU biophysicists demonstrates how biological processes form the convoluted internal architecture of the ...

Cells once thought passive are now seen as sculptors. Their choreography may explain how tissues form and fail. A new study ...

Adipose tissue is an endocrine organ secreting different types of proteins, known as adipokines. These adipokines play important roles in homeostasis and metabolism. Adipocyte differentiation leads to ...

We evaluated the presence/absence of proteins encoded by 14 077 genes in adipocytes obtained from different tissue samples using immunohistochemistry. By combining this with previously published ...

The following is a summary of “Metabolomics of 3D cell co-culture reveals alterations in energy metabolism at the cross-talk of colorectal cancer-adipocytes,” published in the October 2024 issue of ...

Four teams have coaxed human stem cells to organize themselves into embryo-like forms. The advance could shed light on fertility. By Carl Zimmer In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops ...