A new study of living cells could revolutionize the way we test drugs
Researchers have made a breakthrough by detecting the electrical equivalent of a living cell's last gasp.

Massey researchers induce cell death in leukemia
Researchers presented preclinical research at the American Association of Cancer Research's annual meeting suggesting the potential of a new combination treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Cancer stem cells: know thine enemy
Stem cells -- popularly known as a source of biological rejuvenation -- may play harmful roles in the body

Stem cell identity in culture may strongly depend on the cellular microenvironment
Identification, isolation and large scale culture of stem cells for potential medical applications is a major challenge in cell biology.

Asymmetry due to Perfect Balance
Cell membranes are like two-dimensional fluids whose molecules are distributed evenly through lateral diffusion

Bone morphogenetic protein antagonist gremlin 1 is widely expressed by cancer-associated stromal cells and can promote tumor cell proliferation
In this work, the authors used a genomic approach to identify factors produced by cells in the microenvironment of basal cell carcinoma of the skin, one of the most common human cancers.

Deactivation of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate/Akt signaling mediates neutrophil spontaneous death
Neutrophil spontaneous death plays essential roles in neutrophil homeostasis and resolution of inflammation, whereas the underlying molecular mechanisms are still ill-defined.

Evolution of cooperation among tumor cells
Existing cancer theory suggests that individual clones of cancer cells evolve independently from one another, acquiring all of the genetic traits or hallmarks necessary to form a malignant tumor.

Hepatic Stem Cells: In Search of
In this review, the authors discuss the different definitions and functions of hepatic progenitor cells as well as the current research efforts examining their therapeutic potential.

Concise Review: Telomere Biology in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells
The identification of the leukemic stem cell, along with the desire to target this population with anti-leukemia therapy, demands that telomerase biology be fully understood in this cell compartment.

The cell cycle DB: a systems biology approach to cell cycle analysis
The aim of resource is to give an exhaustive view of the cell cycle process

Functional Sieve Element Protoplasts
SE protoplasts promise to be a powerful tool in studying the membrane biology of SEs with inherent implications for the understanding of long-distance transport and signaling

An efficient rapid system for profiling the cellular activities of molecular libraries
This methodology provides a powerful tool for unraveling the cellular biology and molecular pharmacology of both naturally occurring and synthetic chemical diversity.

Metal-Responsive Transcription Factors That Regulate Iron, Zinc, and Copper Homeostasis in Eukaryotic Cells
This review focuses on the role that metal-responsive transcription factors have in regulating trace metal metabolism.

Autophagy in the Eukaryotic Cell
This review focuses on the yeast S. cerevisiae because of the recent advances in understanding of the molecular mechanism of autophagy, pexophagy, and Cvt transport in this organism.

DNA and the chromosome – varied targets for chemotherapy
In this review, the authors discussed some of the new drugs aimed at primary DNA sequences, DNA secondary structures, and associated proteins.

TBLR1 regulates the expression of nuclear hormone receptor co-repressors
In this paper, the authors report the structure of the TBLR1 gene and analyze its pattern of expression.

Reversing cancer cells to normal cells
Tumor cells exposed to embryonic microenvironment of stem cells

Cancer cells 'reprogram' energy needs to grow and spread, study suggests
Studying a rare inherited syndrome, researchers have found that cancer cells can reprogram themselves to turn down their own energy-making machinery and use less oxygen

'Nurse cells' make life and death decisions for infection-fighting cells
"Nurse cells" play an important role in deciding which developing infection-fighting cells, called T cells, live and which die, according to research