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  1. Researchers have identified a specific cellular pathway involving hepatic stellate cells that may explain how statins, commonly used to lower cholesterol, help slow or prevent the development of primary liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.
    #Hepatology #Oncology #CellularBiology #MolecularPharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/med09102601

  2. Researchers have identified a specific cellular pathway involving hepatic stellate cells that may explain how statins, commonly used to lower cholesterol, help slow or prevent the development of primary liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.
    #Hepatology #Oncology #CellularBiology #MolecularPharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/med09102601

  3. Researchers have identified a specific cellular pathway involving hepatic stellate cells that may explain how statins, commonly used to lower cholesterol, help slow or prevent the development of primary liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.
    #Hepatology #Oncology #CellularBiology #MolecularPharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/med09102601

  4. Researchers have identified a specific cellular pathway involving hepatic stellate cells that may explain how statins, commonly used to lower cholesterol, help slow or prevent the development of primary liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.
    #Hepatology #Oncology #CellularBiology #MolecularPharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/med09102601

  5. Researchers have identified a specific cellular pathway involving hepatic stellate cells that may explain how statins, commonly used to lower cholesterol, help slow or prevent the development of primary liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.
    #Hepatology #Oncology #CellularBiology #MolecularPharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/med09102601

  6. Rituximab (RTX), an intravenous drug primarily known for depleting B cells, has been found to also trigger positive metabolic changes in T cells, specifically improving energy production and lowering cellular stress in patients with nephrotic syndrome who respond favorably to the treatment.
    #Immunology #Nephrology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imgy0909260

  7. Rituximab (RTX), an intravenous drug primarily known for depleting B cells, has been found to also trigger positive metabolic changes in T cells, specifically improving energy production and lowering cellular stress in patients with nephrotic syndrome who respond favorably to the treatment.
    #Immunology #Nephrology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imgy0909260

  8. Rituximab (RTX), an intravenous drug primarily known for depleting B cells, has been found to also trigger positive metabolic changes in T cells, specifically improving energy production and lowering cellular stress in patients with nephrotic syndrome who respond favorably to the treatment.
    #Immunology #Nephrology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imgy0909260

  9. Rituximab (RTX), an intravenous drug primarily known for depleting B cells, has been found to also trigger positive metabolic changes in T cells, specifically improving energy production and lowering cellular stress in patients with nephrotic syndrome who respond favorably to the treatment.
    #Immunology #Nephrology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imgy0909260

  10. Rituximab (RTX), an intravenous drug primarily known for depleting B cells, has been found to also trigger positive metabolic changes in T cells, specifically improving energy production and lowering cellular stress in patients with nephrotic syndrome who respond favorably to the treatment.
    #Immunology #Nephrology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imgy0909260

  11. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  12. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  13. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  14. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  15. Multicellular cyanobacteria possess specialized cell-to-cell communication structures regulated by calcium signals, fundamentally mirroring the intercellular communication systems found in higher eukaryotic organisms.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #PhototrophicMicrobiology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #StructuralBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio0831260

  16. Researchers have identified a molecular switch, governed by the naturally occurring molecule miR-342 and the E2F genetic pathway, that drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
    #Oncology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ongy0822260

  17. Researchers have identified a molecular switch, governed by the naturally occurring molecule miR-342 and the E2F genetic pathway, that drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
    #Oncology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ongy0822260

  18. Researchers have identified a molecular switch, governed by the naturally occurring molecule miR-342 and the E2F genetic pathway, that drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
    #Oncology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ongy0822260

  19. Researchers have identified a molecular switch, governed by the naturally occurring molecule miR-342 and the E2F genetic pathway, that drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
    #Oncology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ongy0822260

  20. Researchers have identified a molecular switch, governed by the naturally occurring molecule miR-342 and the E2F genetic pathway, that drives the spread of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
    #Oncology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/ongy0822260

  21. Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
    #Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/mcb08192601

  22. Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
    #Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/mcb08192601

  23. Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
    #Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/mcb08192601

  24. Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
    #Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/mcb08192601

  25. Researchers have identified a specific protein, TgPRO, that allows the Toxoplasma gondii parasite to alter its metabolism to survive the nutrient-poor, crowded conditions inside a host cell cyst.
    #Microbiology #Parasitology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology #Genetics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/mcb08192601

  26. A novel cryopreservation technique utilizing nontoxic antifreeze sugars, such as trehalose and sucrose, to protect CAR-T cells during freezing and thawing without requiring extensive chemical removal prior to patient infusion.
    #Bioengineering #Oncology #CellularBiology #Immunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/beng0819260

  27. A novel cryopreservation technique utilizing nontoxic antifreeze sugars, such as trehalose and sucrose, to protect CAR-T cells during freezing and thawing without requiring extensive chemical removal prior to patient infusion.
    #Bioengineering #Oncology #CellularBiology #Immunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/beng0819260

  28. A novel cryopreservation technique utilizing nontoxic antifreeze sugars, such as trehalose and sucrose, to protect CAR-T cells during freezing and thawing without requiring extensive chemical removal prior to patient infusion.
    #Bioengineering #Oncology #CellularBiology #Immunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/beng0819260

  29. A novel cryopreservation technique utilizing nontoxic antifreeze sugars, such as trehalose and sucrose, to protect CAR-T cells during freezing and thawing without requiring extensive chemical removal prior to patient infusion.
    #Bioengineering #Oncology #CellularBiology #Immunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/beng0819260

  30. A novel cryopreservation technique utilizing nontoxic antifreeze sugars, such as trehalose and sucrose, to protect CAR-T cells during freezing and thawing without requiring extensive chemical removal prior to patient infusion.
    #Bioengineering #Oncology #CellularBiology #Immunology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/beng0819260

  31. Mitochondrial health = longevity foundation 🔋

    Healthy mitochondria → efficient energy production + cellular protection

    Dysfunction = nearly every age-related disease

    Promising interventions: NAD+ precursors, mitophagy enhancers, targeted antioxidants

    The question now: how do we translate this into effective therapies?

    #Longevity #Mitochondria #AgingBiology #Healthspan #CellularBiology

  32. 🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

    🆕 uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-ac

    📖 cell.com/developmental-cell/fu

    #biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

  33. 🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

    🆕 uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-ac

    📖 cell.com/developmental-cell/fu

    #biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

  34. 🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

    🆕 uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-ac

    📖 cell.com/developmental-cell/fu

    #biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

  35. 🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

    🆕 uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-ac

    📖 cell.com/developmental-cell/fu

    #biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

  36. 🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

    🆕 uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-ac

    📖 cell.com/developmental-cell/fu

    #biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

  37. Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer

    From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

    The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.

    Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
    So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
    To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40]

    [40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.


    #science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations
  38. Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer

    From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

    The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.

    Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
    So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
    To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40]

    [40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.


    #science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations
  39. Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer

    From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

    The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.

    Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
    So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
    To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40]

    [40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.


    #science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations
  40. Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer

    From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

    The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.

    Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
    So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
    To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40]

    [40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.


    #science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations
  41. We are excited to welcome back Dr. Ali Hassanali from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to Enabla with his second lecture🎉 This time, Dr. Hassanali explores the intersection of biology and physics by analyzing E. coli as a model system to understand biological efficiency. He dives into critical topics such as the concentration of proteins and water molecules within the cell, the effects of particle crowding, and the kinetics of diffusion in crowded environments. Furthermore, he sheds light on the energy dynamics that enable efficient biological operations, all while considering the nanoscale interactions vital to cellular functions.

    🎥 This #OpenAccess lecture is now available for free! Join the Enabla community in discussing the lecture and engage directly with Dr. Hassanali using our in-time discussions feature to explore your questions about protein dynamics and biophysics: enabla.com/pub/1164/about

    #Biophysics #EColi #MolecularInteractions #ProteinDynamics #CellularBiology #OpenScience