Tumors are stressful places for cancer-fighting immune cells. Low oxygen, high acid levels, and other stressors put strain on mitochondria, the cell's energy factories, leading to T cell exhaustion ...

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Researchers at the Van Andel Institute suggest that the routes cancer cells use to process different nutrients deeply influence cell behavior. They discovered an alternate, or non-canonical, path by ...

When it comes to their survival, cancer cells have a host of backup plans. This is especially true of the nutrients that cancers use to grow and spread. In addition to relying on sugars like glucose ...

Three-time slacklining world champion Jaan Roose is pictured during the first slackline walk across the Messina Strait on July 10, 2024, between Santa Trada, Calabria, and Torre Faro, Sicily.

Robots are about to start helping Starbucks managers with one of their most tedious tasks: Counting inventory. The coffee shop giant is rolling out AI-powered, automated counting across its ...

Americans love hot dogs. Whether it’s at ball games, backyard BBQs, or street carts, they’re one of the most eaten foods in the country. And it’s one of those foods you love, but you’d rather not ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by André Nadler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Schematic of horizontal elongation in an optimized cell cluster. (a) Left: The final configuration of a simulation with randomly initialized parameters; right: The final simulation state after ...

Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf. The surgery is ...