Hailey-Hailey disease is a rare, inherited condition characterized by patches of blisters appearing mainly in the skin folds of the arm pits, groin and under the breasts. It is caused by a mutation in the gene that codes ...
Biotechnology
Mar 24, 2023
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Scientists at EPFL have determined how a protein that is critical in our first line of immune defense is regulated in the cell to prevent autoinflammatory diseases.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2022
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In a rare disease called mucolipidosis type II, people's hearts and abdomens swell, and their bones grow malformed.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2022
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"What our work shows is how a complex in the center of the cell, the ER-Golgi interaction region, controls plasma membrane cholesterol, which is essential for many cellular functions, if not essential for multicellular life," ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2022
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Organelles inside cells constantly serve specific functions in the same way that individual departments handle certain tasks in an organization. Cellular processes alter the amount of heat organelles generate, but it is not ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 26, 2022
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Our immune system is essential for our survival, as our bodies are constantly being exposed to bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other pathogens. Without an immune system, we would quickly lose the war against these pathogens ...
Biochemistry
Jul 21, 2022
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Research led by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has revealed a novel mechanism that regulates secretion of sonic hedgehog (Shh), a key signaling molecule that plays an important role in cancer progression ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 9, 2022
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One third of the proteins essential for life processes are produced in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of the cell and distributed via membrane vesicles. Sorting of proteins at ER exit sites and transport to the Golgi apparatus ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2021
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Cells must provide their internal organelles with all the energy elements they need, which are formed in the Golgi apparatus, the center of maturation and redistribution of lipids and proteins. But how do the proteins that ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2021
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Research carried out by the University has discovered the first data on an organelle that is really important in human cells in an ancient organism distantly related to humans.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2018
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