• Although sweet, bitter and umami (monosodium glutamate) tastes are different, researchers are finding that information about each of these tastes is transmitted from the various taste receptors via a common intracellular signaling pathway. (scienceblog.com)
  • Both taste and smell are based on chemical receptors that are activated by certain molecules. (royalpitch.com)
  • The main function of the olfactory or taste receptors is to assess food and drink. (royalpitch.com)
  • Saliva is also a solvent for polar substances and transports them to the taste receptors. (royalpitch.com)
  • Sweet and umami tastes are perceived by T1r taste receptors in oral cavity. (nature.com)
  • T1rs are class C G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), and the extracellular ligand binding domains (LBDs) of T1r1/T1r3 and T1r2/T1r3 heterodimers are responsible for binding of chemical substances eliciting umami or sweet taste. (nature.com)
  • Approximately half of the members of the human GPCR superfamily are chemosensory receptors, including odorant receptors (ORs), trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs), sweet and umami taste receptors (TAS1Rs). (mdpi.com)
  • Bitter Taste Receptors in Uterus May One Day Help Prevent Premature Birth. (umassmed.edu)
  • Available online: https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/bitter-taste-receptors-in-uterus-may-one-day-help-prevent-premature-birth-30215. (umassmed.edu)
  • Bitter taste receptors in airway cells could help treat asthma attacks. (umassmed.edu)
  • This project aims to study the desensitisation of the chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5 in hematopoietic cells using a multidisciplinary approach. (europa.eu)
  • The gross anatomy (peripheral and central nervous system) of taste, microscopic and ultrastructural morphology of taste buds, physiology of taste (modalities, distribution of taste sensations, electrophysiology of the receptors, mechanism and intensity of stimulation, and taste contrasts), as well as a few clinical applications, are discussed in this article. (medscape.com)
  • The proteins in the cell membrane function as pumps, receptors and transporters and regulate which substances find their way into and out of the cell. (lu.se)
  • The taste buds sense molecules in food and transmit information about taste to nerves called gustatory nerves. (medboundtimes.com)
  • The temperature of food influences how people perceive taste, and researchers believe it is likely that molecular mechanisms in the taste buds themselves play a role in this process. (medboundtimes.com)
  • In a new study, researchers isolated single Type II taste cells from the taste buds of mice and treated them with solutions ranging in temperature from 50 to 86 degrees F. The research team measured the action potentials (nerve signals) of the cells. (medboundtimes.com)
  • A major finding in the present study is that the temperature significantly modulates the firing frequency of actional potentials in type II taste buds," the researchers wrote. (medboundtimes.com)
  • Olfactory cells and taste buds are adaptation neurones that receive signals from molecules binding to membrane bound proteins. (royalpitch.com)
  • Each papilla can contain up to eight taste buds. (royalpitch.com)
  • Olfactory cells and tastebuds experience the same stimuli as taste buds. (royalpitch.com)
  • A group of cells known as taste buds is responsible for detecting a taste. (royalpitch.com)
  • The taste buds are located in clusters inside bumps on the tongue, called papillae. (royalpitch.com)
  • Each taste bud is covered by one to eight taste buds. (royalpitch.com)
  • BYE BYE BUDS Mice that became obese on a high-fat diet (right) lost a quarter of their taste buds (stained red) and also had fewer progenitor cells (stained green) - which give rise to new taste buds - than mice of a healthy weight on a regular diet (left). (sciencenews.org)
  • As mice plumped up on a high-fat diet, some of their taste buds vanished. (sciencenews.org)
  • Compared with siblings that were fed normal mouse chow, mice given high-fat meals lost about 25 percent of their taste buds over eight weeks. (sciencenews.org)
  • Buds went missing because mature taste bud cells died off more quickly , and fewer new cells developed to take their place. (sciencenews.org)
  • 9/28/2016 - Doctors have known for some time that radiation treatment for cancers of the head and neck can often result in changes to a patient's sense of smell or taste, but they have attributed this effect mostly to temporary destruction of taste buds. (naturalnews.com)
  • How exactly do your taste buds work? (slideshare.net)
  • Those are called papillae, and most of them contain taste buds. (slideshare.net)
  • Taste buds have very sensitive microscopic hairs called microvilli. (slideshare.net)
  • The average person has about 10,000 taste buds and they're replaced every 2 weeks or so. (slideshare.net)
  • An older person may only have 5,000 working taste buds. (slideshare.net)
  • Smoking also can reduce the number of taste buds a person has. (slideshare.net)
  • They work together with your taste buds to create the true flavor of that yummy slice of pizza by telling the brain all about it. (slideshare.net)
  • There are five universally accepted basic tastes that stimulate and are perceived by our taste buds: 1. (slideshare.net)
  • Hypogeusia Reduced ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter, or salty things Heavy smoking, dehydration, radiation therapy administered to the neck or head, or burns to the tongue that damage the taste buds can all cause a diminished sense of taste. (slideshare.net)
  • There are several diseases in which usually taste buds are affected: 1. (slideshare.net)
  • Arvidson K. Location and variation in number of taste buds in human fungiform papillae. (slideshare.net)
  • The sensory taste cells are specialised cells on the tongue, taste buds, which can distinguish between five tastes: sour, sweet, salty, umami and bitter. (lu.se)
  • What we choose to eat and drink is driven largely by the sensory properties of food: taste, smell, and texture. (nutrition.org)
  • Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aristotle proposed a sensory tasting defined by the four elements (air, water, fire, and earth) further deepened by the Roman philosopher Lucretius in the first century BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to the olfactory neurons, the epithelium is composed of supporting cells, Bowman glands and ducts unique to the olfactory epithelium, and basal cells that allow for the regeneration of the epithelium, including the olfactory sensory neurons. (medscape.com)
  • New research has revealed the extent of sensory loss among people suffering from long COVID, with around 30 percent reporting a decreased sense of smell, and a similar number finding their sense of taste continuing to be affected 12 weeks or more after the initial infection. (sciencedaily.com)
  • are sensory organs that are found on your tongue and allow you to experience tastes that are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. (slideshare.net)
  • In terms of smell and taste, our trained sensory panel and analytical examination found the profile of the brew to bear similarity to ordinary coffee. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Cells of epithelial origin possessing specialized sensory functions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Type II taste cells share a signaling pathway and sense sweet, bitter, umami and salty flavors. (medboundtimes.com)
  • Those tiny hairs send messages to the brain about how something tastes, so we know if it's sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. (slideshare.net)
  • The purpose of smell and taste cells is to identify the smell of food or drink. (royalpitch.com)
  • Each taste bud is arranged around a central taste pore, which allows the body to detect the smell of food and smell the odor of a foreign substance. (royalpitch.com)
  • In 2004, Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their contribution to the knowledge of the senses of taste and smell. (wikipedia.org)
  • Historically, disorders of taste and smell have been difficult to diagnose and treat, often because of a lack of knowledge and understanding of these senses and their disease states. (medscape.com)
  • An alteration in taste or smell may be a secondary process in various disease states, or it may be the primary symptom. (medscape.com)
  • The prevalence of disorders of taste and smell in the US general population has been estimated from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2014 protocol. (medscape.com)
  • Loss of smell and/or taste has been linked to inadequate nutritional intake, reduced social pleasure, and decreased psychological well-being. (medscape.com)
  • Because approximately 80% of taste disorders are truly smell disorders, much of this article focuses on the sense of smell and its dysfunction, with additional discussion of taste and related disorders. (medscape.com)
  • The disorders of smell are classified as "-osmias" and those of taste as "-geusias. (medscape.com)
  • Smell and taste disorders can be total (all odors or tastes), partial (affecting several odors or tastes), or specific (only one or a select few odors or tastes). (medscape.com)
  • The sense of smell is mediated through stimulation of the olfactory receptor cells by volatile chemicals. (medscape.com)
  • Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) analysed data from 14 separate studies exploring the prevalence of persistent anosmia (full loss of smell), hyposmia (decreased sense of smell), ageusia (loss of sense of taste), and hypogeusia (reduced sense of taste), as well as vision and hearing-related long Covid symptoms. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Among the 4,702 people with long Covid included within the study, 31.2% reported suffering from reduced sense of taste and 29.9% reported decreased sense of smell at least 12 weeks after first being infected. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In addition, 12.2% reported full loss of smell and 11.7% encountered full loss of taste. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Senior author Professor Shahina Pardhan, Director of the Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) at ARU, said: "Persistent changes in taste and smell have manifested as symptoms of long Covid. (sciencedaily.com)
  • These are generally associated with decreases in quality of life, so it is vital that we understand these changes in patients' smell and taste to help medical professionals advise or manage patients appropriately. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dec. 20, 2022 New research shows that a third of long COVID patients suffer persistent smell loss, and almost a fifth suffer loss of taste. (sciencedaily.com)
  • June 29, 2021 Patients with mild COVID-19 infections experience a significantly increased longer lasting reduced sense of taste and smell. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A new study finds that the color of the vending cup used to serve hot chocolate can alter its taste and smell, with orange or cream colored cups enhancing flavor and aroma more than white or red ones. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, and her colleague Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford in the UK, suggest their findings add to the body of of evidence that shows food and drink can smell and taste differently according to the plate or cup in which it is served. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • COVID-19 typically produces a range of flu-like symptoms, including a cough and fatigue, but it can also cause the loss of taste and smell. (slideshare.net)
  • A 2020 meta-analysis observed that 53% of people who contracted COVID-19 had problems with taste and smell. (slideshare.net)
  • Gatlin CA. Clinical physiology of taste and smell. (slideshare.net)
  • Kakutani Y, Narumi T, Kobayakawa T, Kawai T, Kusakabe Y, Kunieda S, Wada Y. Taste of breath: the temporal order of taste and smell synchronized with breathing as a determinant for taste and olfactory integration. (slideshare.net)
  • The first batches produced by VTT in a laboratory in Finland smell and taste like conventional coffee. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Because distinct flavors depend on aromas to stimulate the olfactory chemoreceptors, smell and taste are physiologically interdependent. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Disorders of smell and taste are rarely incapacitating or life threatening, so they often do not receive close medical attention, although their effect on quality of life can be severe. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Whether brain stem disease (involvement of the nucleus solitarius) can cause disorders of smell and taste is uncertain because other neurologic manifestations usually take precedence. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Each taste bud in the tongue contains around 100 cells that are categorized as Type I, Type II and Type III. (medboundtimes.com)
  • Used as a pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine for nearly 5,000 years, Schizandra Berry is a potent "adaptogen" that's extremely rare in its delivery of all five tastes on your tongue. (naturalnews.com)
  • Take a sip of Poland Spring after putting something acidic on your tongue, and it may taste a little sweet. (popsci.com)
  • Glossopharyngeal and facial nerve integrity can be determined by testing taste on both sides of the dorsum of the tongue with sugar, salt, vinegar (sour), and quinine (bitter). (msdmanuals.com)
  • radiation therapy of the head and neck, or desquamation of the tongue can impair taste, and various medications (eg, those with anticholinergic properties, vincristine ) alter taste. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The chorda tympani (CT) receives taste information from the anterior two thirds of the tongue. (medscape.com)
  • When you slide down the tongue, you get a feel for how the sense of taste works. (lu.se)
  • In addition, the oral mucosa helps to maintain the acuity of the taste receptor cells. (royalpitch.com)
  • A new preclinical study reveals the drug activates a bitter taste receptor through two unique mechanisms that result in cancer cell death. (upenn.edu)
  • Here we show the first molecular view of reception of a taste substance by a taste receptor, where the binding of the taste substance elicits a different conformational state of T1r2/T1r3 LBD heterodimer. (nature.com)
  • Förster resonance energy transfer and X-ray solution scattering have revealed the transition of the dimerization manner of the ligand binding domains, from a widely spread to compactly organized state upon taste substance binding, which may correspond to distinct receptor functional states. (nature.com)
  • Figure 1: Taste Receptor T1r Proteins from Medaka Fish (mf). (nature.com)
  • c ) Dose-response curves for l -alanine and l -glutamine by the full-length mf T1r2a/T1r3 receptor in HEK293 cells. (nature.com)
  • In this molecular expedition of the bitter taste receptor gene, students will use laboratory techniques and equipment to extract DNA from human cells, amplify a portion of the bitter taste receptor gene by PCR, and use gel electrophoresis to analyze DNA fragments. (novartis.com)
  • In this biomedical exploration, students will use gel electrophoresis to analyze multiple DNA samples to determine the bitter taste receptor genotype of potential patients for a hypothetical clinical Proof of Concept trial. (novartis.com)
  • The researchers say this unexpected discovery could have important implications because the stem cells remain alive inside the tooth for a short time after it falls out of a child's mouth, suggesting the cells could be readily harvested for research. (scienceblog.com)
  • The identification of a common pathway runs counter to widespread belief among some researchers in the taste field who have long held the view that the different tastes require distinct machinery within the cell to transduce their signals to the brain, which is responsible for processing taste perceptions. (scienceblog.com)
  • By simulating patterns of microvasculature cell growth and compare the results with real networks grown in lab, researchers hope to direct how they grow into the tiny blood vessels that feed the brain and help people regain functions lost to stroke and disease. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • In order to learn more about the natural behaviour of cells, the researchers therefore resort to methods from materials science. (analytica-world.com)
  • To analyze taste-test results, the CSAIL researchers are using genetic programming, in which mathematical models compete with each other to fit the available data and then cross-pollinate to produce models that are more accurate still. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In another study, researchers showed that strawberry mousse tastes sweeter and more intense when served on a white plate than a black plate. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Umami taste discovered by a Japanese researcher (umami means tasty), highlights the ability of the cat (like man) to react to the taste of glutamate, this allows to recognize some molecules such as glutamate , guanosine and inosine, present in nature in countless foods rich in proteins and precious in the cat's diet. (manualefaidate.com)
  • The heterodimer of T1r2 and T1r3 recognizes sweet taste substances such as sugars and artificial sweeteners, while the heterodimer of T1r1 and T1r3 recognizes umami taste substances such as l -glutamate 4 , 5 , 6 . (nature.com)
  • At around the same time, a group at the University of Utah found that mammalian taste cells make proteins called aquaporins, which serve to channel water through cell membranes. (popsci.com)
  • The cells and logic for mammalian sour taste detection. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, cells exposed to higher temperatures had a decrease in interval time between action potentials and an increase in firing frequency (more signals being produced). (medboundtimes.com)
  • Taste is mediated by 3 cranial nerves: the facial (VII), glossopharyngeal (IX), and vagus (X), as displayed in the images below. (medscape.com)
  • Artificial chicken grown from cells gets a taste test-but who will regulate it? (newstimenow.com)
  • The quest for artificial meat inches forward-the company Memphis Meats announced today it has developed chicken and duck meat from cultured cells of each bird, producing "clean poultry. (newstimenow.com)
  • The firm provided few details, although participants at a tasting reportedly said the chicken tasted like, well, chicken. (newstimenow.com)
  • What Do Chicken Livers Taste Like In Real? (trishdeseine.com)
  • So, does chicken liver taste good? (trishdeseine.com)
  • What is the Taste of Chicken Liver? (trishdeseine.com)
  • But, it is also true that the taste of chicken livers depends heavily on how you prepare them. (trishdeseine.com)
  • Does Fried Chicken Taste Different? (trishdeseine.com)
  • But, there is more than one way of cooking chicken livers, and this significantly alters how they taste. (trishdeseine.com)
  • A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef Andres Voloschin flipped sizzling strips of chicken conjured from cells. (go.com)
  • "Besides algae, we will evaluate the use of plant derived materials and screen for essential molecules that provide a similar taste," ​ he said. (foodnavigator.com)
  • But what if we could start with other cells-if a blood sample or skin biopsy could be transformed into "artificial" sperm and eggs? (technologyreview.com)
  • Scientists have already created artificial eggs and sperm from mouse cells and used them to create mouse pups. (technologyreview.com)
  • Artificial human sex cells are next, promising a whole host of radical alternative routes to parenthood, including spelling an end to infertility, and allowing same-sex couples to have genetically related children. (technologyreview.com)
  • Because O'Reilly and her colleagues' method produces profiles of individual test subjects' tastes, it can sort them into distinct groups. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The bristles connect to a set of neurons tuned to sugary and bitter tastes, along with changes in osmotic pressure. (popsci.com)
  • Her laboratory has identified neurons that respond only to water in the brain stem of a rat at several points along the pathway used to process taste, but she's gotten little support for this idea among her colleagues. (popsci.com)
  • Following years of futile attempts, new research from the Monell Center demonstrates that living human taste cells can be maintained in culture for at least seven months. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Furthermore, the LDs metabolic abnormalities, cell dysfunction, some diseases may be attributed to the singular LDs viscosity. (bvsalud.org)
  • The papers published by Haruko Obokata in the scientific journal Nature in January detailed simple ways to reprogramme mature animal cells back to an embryonic-like state, allowing them to generate many types of tissues - offering hope for a way of replacing damaged cells or growing new organs in humans. (tuoitrenews.vn)
  • Your body uses this sugar for energy for your cells, tissues and organs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • FDA also approves so-called biologics, which include products made from human tissues, blood, and cells, and gene therapy techniques. (newstimenow.com)
  • The cell imaging of TPE-BET not only successfully observed the viscosity variations of LDs in cell stress models, e.g., ferroptosis, inflammation and mitophagy, but also revealed the increased viscosity and extracellular delivery of LDs in heavy metal cell injury models (Hg/As) for the first time, which may supply concrete evidence for understanding the structure and function of LDs. (bvsalud.org)
  • But rinse the spit away with water and your cells will rebound to a bitter or sour taste with your next sip. (popsci.com)
  • This disappearing act could explain why some people with obesity seem to have a weakened sense of taste, which may compel them to eat more. (sciencenews.org)
  • It's the baseline for the sense of taste, they said-a starting point and null condition. (popsci.com)
  • In any case, it makes perfect sense to him that water should have its own taste. (popsci.com)
  • But making sense of taste-test results is difficult. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Taste is a chemical sense. (medscape.com)
  • The glossopharyngeal (IX) is the most important nerve for the sense of taste. (medscape.com)
  • Potatoes have a naturally mild and neutral taste, so even when they're dressed with salt, butter, and gravy, mashed potatoes can still lack the blast of flavor they deserve. (yahoo.com)
  • Start with a small amount and taste as you go to ensure that the miso flavor is to your liking. (yahoo.com)
  • Despite its dry appearance, it is usually bursting with flavor and has a robust, singular taste that is hard to forget. (trishdeseine.com)
  • By the 1920s, evidence was mounting that water changes flavor depending on what you happen to have tasted just before. (popsci.com)
  • If you then wash out that flavor with water, the cells rebound into an active state. (popsci.com)
  • Among physiologists, that's been the dogma for more than 30 years: Water has a flavor but only as an aftereffect of tasting other things. (popsci.com)
  • The Algae2Fish team aims to cultivate the meat from seabass cells, creating a real fish fillet with the same look, taste and texture as conventionally produced seabass - and even the same health benefits - but without the bones or the negative environmental impact. (foodnavigator.com)
  • These will be used to give structure to a product cultivated from fish cells - helping recreate the complex fibrous texture seen in conventionally produced fish and contributing to the taste and texture. (foodnavigator.com)
  • We're trying to help that by making a product that can be used in foods to increase the fibre content without compromising taste and texture," says Annelie Moldin from Lantmännen. (lu.se)
  • "At this point we want to establish a 3D edible and vegan scaffold able to support fish cell growth," ​Ferreira told us. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Thick, structured meat also requires a scaffold that helps cells organize into a shape. (go.com)
  • Bartoshuk found that a person's own saliva can spruce up the taste of water. (popsci.com)
  • The saliva doesn't taste like anything because your mouth has become habituated to it. (popsci.com)
  • Mice homozygous for a conditional allele activated in Schwann cells exhibit transient acceleration of postnatal myelination, reduced demyelination in culture, and reduced myelin degradation and increases remyelination following nerve axotomy or sciatic nerve crush. (jax.org)
  • Mice homozygous for a null allele exhibit incomplete prenatal lethality, decreased osteoclast cell number, decreased angiogenesis, increased long bone epiphyseal plate size, and short long bones. (jax.org)
  • One of the most important foundations of the modern Life Sciences is being able to cultivate cells outside the body and to observe them with optical microscopes. (analytica-world.com)
  • The substrate for microscopic study is structured in such a way that it normalises cell behaviour. (analytica-world.com)
  • This is a time-sensitive RFI to determine how best to accelerate research directed toward targeted differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into specific neuronal and glial cell types. (nih.gov)
  • Scientists report for the first time that "baby" teeth, the temporary teeth that children begin losing around their sixth birthday, contain a rich supply of stem cells in their dental pulp. (scienceblog.com)
  • A team of Portuguese scientists plan to use algae to develop new techniques for cultivating fish fillets from seabass cells. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Scientists from Heidelberg University have developed a novel mathematical model to explore cellular processes: with the corresponding software , they now are able to simulate how large collections of cells behave on given geometrical structures. (analytica-world.com)
  • scientists choose cells that can self-renew and turn into the muscle and fat cells that make up meat tissue. (go.com)
  • Gaudette said scientists are still trying to find the best scaffolds for structured meat, which must include a way for oxygen to get to all the cells. (go.com)
  • But eventually, scientists began to notice that a draught of pure distilled water could provoke a certain taste. (popsci.com)
  • Scientists have proved that fruit flies taste chemicals through bristles that protrude from their wings, legs, and proboscis. (popsci.com)
  • The team will use electrical stimulation aiming to enhance fish stem cells' transformation into muscle and fat. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Other areas of application lie in high throughput screening for medicine when a decision needs to be taken automatically on whether a certain active substance changes cell behaviour. (analytica-world.com)
  • Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that's found in all cells of the body. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Later in contemplation of an immune response, Burnet added, "The failure of antibody production against autologous cells demands the postulation of an active ability of the reticulo-endothelial cells to recognize 'self' patterns from 'non-self' patterns in organic material taken into their substance" ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • To make sure the substance is both inside and outside the cells, a small electrical pulse is applied in order to penetrate the outer cell membrane. (lu.se)
  • The color of the container where food and drink are served can enhance some attributes like taste and aroma. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A new study finds temperature affects electrical activity levels in taste bud cells, which could greatly influence perception of taste. (medboundtimes.com)
  • Bitter This feline is very sensitive to the perception of bitterness, which is why it often avoids toxic substances, which often have a bitter taste. (manualefaidate.com)
  • However, molecular analyses of T1r have been hampered due to the difficulties in recombinant expression and protein purification, and thus little is known about mechanisms for taste perception. (nature.com)
  • Anyone who has ever observed biological cells under a microscope knows how unpredictable their behaviour can be. (analytica-world.com)
  • The group of Ulrich Schwarz aims at describing in mathematical terms the behaviour of biological cells on micropatterned substrates. (analytica-world.com)
  • AcouSort - a biotech company providing solutions for automated sample preparations involving biological cells or other organelles, using the technology of acoustophoresis. (lu.se)
  • The protein protects tissue from inflammation when cells rupture. (lu.se)
  • They mediate various physiological functions such as vision, taste, calcium, glucose homeostasis and chemotaxis. (europa.eu)
  • Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that Tld1's HRs interact with TG on LDs and adopt specific conformations on TG-rich LDs versus SE-rich LDs in yeast and human cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • Johan Thevelein, Ph.D., an emeritus professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Katholieke Universiteit, and his team had pioneered technology for identifying genes responsible for commercially important traits in yeast. (phys.org)
  • It's been claimed that radiation from cell phones can cause brain tumors (there's no convincing evidence that this is true ), breast cancer (the evidence for these claims is so incredibly flimsy-and featured by Dr. Oz, to boot! (scienceblogs.com)