Advanced Cell Models – News and Features

Study suggests that a pain relief drug can quickly and reversibly induce a sleep-like state in cells and organs could facilitate organ transplantation and prevent irreversible tissue injury.

A joint research team has used stem cells to generate human immune cells for application in cancer immunotherapy. This breakthrough platform is expected to significantly enhance cancer-targeting efficacy.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis showed that abnormal expression of the protein Engrailed-1 (EN1) promotes pancreatic cancer progression and metastasis in vitro and in mouse models.

The first 3D-printed brain tissue could change the way researchers investigate neurological disorders.

Ovarian cancer is often very aggressive and responds poorly to the therapies currently available. A recent study offers hope that this could change in the medium term.

With the incidence of pre-eclampsia slowly creeping up, researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to study this condition as outlined in their paper published in Cell Stem Cell.

SARS-CoV-2 can infect dopamine neurons and trigger senescence, which may shed light on the neurological symptoms of long COVID, such as brain fog, lethargy and depression.

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to treat this disease.

A collection of ingenious biological tools for studying the genesis of life has been awarded Nature Methods’ coveted Method of the Year award for 2023

Have you ever wondered why dogs and cats can only see a limited color spectrum, while humans are able to envision a spectrum that is millions of colors-wide? Researchers from John Hopkins University set out to understand this phenomenon.