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Researchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
A new microfluidics cell culture model recapitulates the basic biology of gut touch.
Researchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
Researchers Use Groovy Science to Understand Gut Feelings
A new microfluidics cell culture model recapitulates the basic biology of gut touch.
A new microfluidics cell culture model recapitulates the basic biology of gut touch.
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Tuning T Cells
Danielle Gerhard, PhD
| Oct 2, 2023
| 2 min read
An often overlooked property of the tumor environment shapes T cell function and may improve T cell therapies.
Nucleus Is Key to How Cells Sense Personal Space
Abby Olena, PhD
| Oct 15, 2020
| 4 min read
In two independent studies, researchers find that the organelle is responsible for a switch that allows cells to start moving when they’re squeezed.
The Biggest Science News of 2018
Kerry Grens
| Dec 27, 2018
| 7 min read
From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein
Long-Sought Hearing Channel Protein Found
Abby Olena, PhD
| Aug 22, 2018
| 3 min read
After a decades-long pursuit, researchers have confirmed the identity of the pore of the mechanotransduction channel in vertebrates’ inner ear hair cells.
Hearing Channel Components Mapped
Kerry Grens
| Sep 4, 2015
| 2 min read
Localization of two proteins important for inner ear hair cell function suggests they are part of the elusive mechanotransduction channel.
Hearing Discrepancy Probed
Amanda B. Keener
| Sep 1, 2015
| 3 min read
Common in vitro experiments have distorted the true mechanics of mammalian hair cell stereocilia.
Human Hearing: A Primer
The Scientist
| Sep 1, 2015
| 1 min read
How the human ear translates sound waves into nervous impulses
Huh?
The Scientist
| Aug 31, 2015
| 1 min read
Hearing loss can occur for a variety of reasons, and sometimes more than one.
Gene Therapy Fixes Mouse Hearing
Kerry Grens
| Jul 9, 2015
| 1 min read
Expressing a gene for a component of the inner ear’s hair cells treated a form of genetic deafness.
Tricky Transfections
Ruth Williams
| Mar 1, 2015
| 2 min read
A combination of microinjection and electroporation inserts genes into hard-to-reach cells.
New Piece of a Mysterious Channel
Kerry Grens
| Nov 25, 2014
| 3 min read
Researchers have nailed down yet another component of the mechanotransduction complex responsible for relaying signals from hair cells in the ear.
Sensing a Little Tension
Nicholette Zeliadt
| Sep 1, 2013
| 8 min read
Tools and techniques for measuring forces in living cells
Grading on the Curve
Edyta Zielinska
| Jun 1, 2012
| 2 min read
Actin filaments respond to pressure by forming branches at their curviest spots, helping resist the push.
A Channel at Large
Kerry Grens
| Nov 1, 2007
| 10 min read
A Channel at Large What is the mechanotransduction channel in hearing that has evaded scientists for decades?
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