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Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., elected to the National Academy of Medicine for seminal work in immunology and cell biology

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

an esteemed immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in recognition of her pioneering contributions to the fields of immunology and cell biology. Miriam Merad, M.D., Credit: Lab of Miriam Merad, MD, PhD Miriam Merad, M.D.,

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Cell biology: How cellular powerhouses call for help when under stress

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

As life propagated across Earth in the form of the widest variety of single-celled organisms, sometime between 3.5 As a host cell, it offered […] and a billion years ago one such organism managed an evolutionary coup: Instead of devouring and digesting bacteria, it encapsulated its prey and used it as a source of energy.

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What is mCherry and How is it used?

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These proteins have revolutionized cell biology with a variety of applications for monitoring cellular processes in vivo , protein tracking, or gene expression studies. mCherry is a fluorescent protein that presents a monomeric structure of 236 amino acids and a mass of 26.7

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New machine learning-based single-cell search engine makes cell annotation faster, more efficient

Broad Institute

We wanted to build a tool like that for cell biology. So we took lots of reference single-cell RNA sequencing data from atlases and used our scalable machine learning algorithms to embed all of the gene expression data on these cells into compact vector representations — you can think of these as a signature for each cell.

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SEB Centenary Conference 2023

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This year’s SEB conference will feature over 800 talks covering the latest advances in experimental research across animal, plant and cell biology including impactful research in the fields of wildlife conservation, human disease and bio-inspired robotics, amongst many more.

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Study finds how some ion channels form structures permitting drug delivery

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The discovery is a significant advance in cell biology, likely solves a long-standing mystery about an unusual feature of some ion channels […]

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How COVID-19 crosses the placenta – study using placental tissue grown in the lab

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RESEARCH REVEALS HOW COVID-19 VIRUS INFECTS THE PLACENTA, AND HOW THIS CAN BE PREVENTED Credit: Monash University RESEARCH REVEALS HOW COVID-19 VIRUS INFECTS THE PLACENTA, AND HOW THIS CAN BE PREVENTED In a landmark study published in Nature Cell Biology, Australian researchers, led by Professor Jose Polo from Monash University and the University of (..)