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Lung stem cells — for real?
By Jef Akst
There’s good, stem cell-related news for another organ this week — the lung. Researchers say they have found lung stem…
Stem cells may mend liver damage
By Jef Akst
Researchers have found a way to reprogram cells from mouse tails to behave like mature liver cells, which appear to be able to repair damaged livers
Engineered proteins for fighting flu
By Cristina Luiggi
In a feat of computational biology, researchers design novel proteins capable of neutralizing a key influenza protein
Top 7 in cell biology
By Jef Akst
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in cell biology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
Micro Farmers
By Cristina Luiggi
Columbia University evolutionary ecologist Dustin Rubenstein explains just why it’s so interesting and important to find slime molds that engage…
Power Failure
By Megan Scudellari
Does mitochondrial dysfunction lie at the heart of common, complex diseases like cancer and autism?
New Blood for Gene Therapy
By Megan Scudellari
A promising gene therapy trial, derailed by cancerous side effects in a young patient, is set to reboot with the help of next generation gene-transfer vectors.
The Movement of Goods Around the Cell
By Patricia Bassereau and Bruno Goud
A biologist and a physicist collaborate on a decade-long exploration of the physical parameters of membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells.
Family Affair
By Megan Scudellari
In discovering their shared ancestry, a distantly related animal geneticist and plant pathologist find a common thread in their work on immune receptors.
The “Me Decade” of Cancer
By Sarah Greene
Drugs that target specific tumors are harbingers of a new era of genetically informed medicine.
