A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

When UV rays strike cellular DNA, they create lesions such as pyrimidine-pyrimidone adducts and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, which disrupt normal ... human cells. They exposed HeLa-S3 cells ...

Tumors, organoids and cell lines that can indefinitely divide in a petri dish, like HeLa cells ... as if carrying on with their normal functions. “The fibroblasts are almost ‘unaware ...

HeLa cells are human cells that were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a cancer patient in 1951. They are the first immortal human cell line and have been a vital tool in medical research.

The body's cells respond to stress -- toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults -- by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

The role of centrosomal tubulin glutamylation has remained elusive for decades. Here, a new tool enables precise ...

A new study on glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, offers a fresh understanding of how the disease ...

It further asserts that Ultragenyx has "made a fortune by using Mrs Lacks's stolen cells as a factory to make its 'proprietary' gene therapy products." The case centres around the use of HeLa ...

“It has been overlooked so far that cell division starts even without Plk1, just later than normal.” With the help of their colleague Antonio Politi, the researchers were able to reproduce the ...