Sensing
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Johns Hopkins study reveals E-cadherin’s role in breast cancer spread, challenging previous assumptions The scientific community has long thought that a protein called E-cadherin acts as a “glue” to prevent… Read More
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When Heonjoon Lee was a first-year chemical engineering undergraduate student at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, he attended a seminar on synthetic biology. He was fascinated to learn how DNA… Read More
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Esophageal cancer carries a grim prognosis even when the best medical care is available. In the developing world, where access to medical resources is limited, it is essentially a death… Read More
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Our immune system is like the police force of our body, generally protecting us from harm such as infection or cancer, explains Johns Hopkins rheumatologist Maximilian F. Konig. When we encounter… Read More
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Story by Lisa Ercolano During January’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, experts cautioned that by 2050, as many as 10 million people a year could die from drug-resistant bacteria,… Read More
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External factors known as “ligands” bind to cell surface receptors called “growth factor receptors” and when they do, it sparks a series of reactions that drive cell growth, tissue development,… Read More
