Why AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...
Scientific American

Shimon Sakaguchi Reflects on How Hunting for a Mysterious T Cell Earned Him a Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells ...

Dancing proteins keep cells moving: Redefining the function and role of key factors in actin filament disassembly

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Artificial Neurons Talk Directly to Living Cells in a First

G. sulfurreducens communicate with each other through tiny, protein-based wires that researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have harvested and used to make artificial neurons that can, ...
MUO on MSN

These navigation shortcuts make Excel feel telepathic

Combining Ctrl + Shift + Arrow keys lets you extend your selection in any direction until Excel hits a blank cell. Start from the top-left corner of your data, try Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow, then ...
Phys.org

Startling images show how antibiotic pierces bacteria's armor

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armor of harmful bacteria.
studyfinds

How Fat Build-Up In Brain Cells Opens Door For Alzheimer’s Disease

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Deep inside the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, immune cells are drowning in their own fat. This buildup of fat droplets inside brain immune cells helps explain why the brain ...
The Tech Report

Cybercriminals Now Use Portable Fake Cell Towers to Deliver Scam Messages

We adhere to a strict editorial policy, ensuring that our content is crafted by an in-house team of experts in online safety, cybersecurity, and parental control. With years of experience in ...
IEEE

Active-Supervised Model for Intestinal Ulcers Segmentation Using Fuzzy Labeling

Abstract: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestines with a rising global incidence. Colonoscopy remains the gold standard for IBD diagnosis, but ...
Nature

Boosting immune cells to combat cancer using CRISPR engineering and large-scale in vivo testing

Immune cells can target cancer in the clinic. The ability to test a gene-editing technology in mice on a large scale should improve such immunotherapies. Michael Hudecek is in the Department of ...
IEEE

Sensing-Assisted Communication Beam Prediction Approaches in V2I Cross-Cell Scenarios: Active Control and Interaction Control Schemes

Abstract: In sensing-assisted communication systems, better positioning precision leads to more accurate communication beam alignment. In this letter, we propose two novel beam prediction schemes, i.e ...