Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.
A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different proteins and protein variants ...
When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...
This story is part one in a four-part series about cell therapy created by the Fierce Biotech team. Gabrielle Masson, Helen Floersh, James Waldron and Max Bayer contributed reporting to this series.
Researchers developed a new machine learning method that, given a relevant amino acid sequence, can automatically predict the location of a protein in any human cell line down to the single-cell level ...