Category: Scientific Advances
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New Tool Collects Biology Data into Cellular Atlases
A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body’s cells in space, according to a study published in Nature Genetics.
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Digital Archive Reveals How Research Agencies Fund Scientific Projects
A new digital archive developed by Northwestern scientists reveals how state-supported research funding agencies cooperate with the scientific community to decide to fund scientific research projects and support scientific innovation, as detailed in a recent study.
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Printed Neurons Communicate With Living Brain Cells
Northwestern scientists have developed flexible, low-cost devices that generate electrical signals realistic enough to activate living brain cells.
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Cells ‘Switch’ on Protein Factories After Injury, Study Finds
Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism through which skin cells organize and control protein production during homeostasis and wound healing, according to a new study published in Developmental Cell.
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Targeting Novel Long Non-Coding RNA May Improve Glioblastoma Treatment
Scientists have discovered that increased expression of a novel long non-coding RNA drives glioblastoma cell growth alongside a genetic amplification found in more than half of glioblastoma tumors, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Cell Biology.
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Transcription Factors Form Continuous ‘Circuit’ That Regulates T-cell Exhaustion
Scientists have discovered how two transcription factors form a reciprocal regulatory circuit that controls T-cell exhaustion and migration during viral infection, which may inform future therapeutic strategies for managing infections and cancer, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
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Uncovering Cellular Drivers of Increased Brain Signal Activity
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new insights into how high gamma activity, a widely studied brain signal, is generated, findings that can impact how past and future neurological studies using this signal are interpreted, according to a recent study published in Nature.
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Study Identifies New Molecular Mechanisms Supporting Cell Adhesion
Scientists led by Sergey Troyanovsky, PhD, professor of Dermatology and of Cell and Developmental Biology, have uncovered new intracellular mechanisms promoting cell-cell adhesion, a process disrupted in a variety of skin and inflammatory diseases, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Cell Biology.
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Light Impacts How the Brain Perceives and Remembers Threats
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that light plays a key role in how animals perceive environmental threats, findings that could improve the understanding of risk avoidance behaviors and disorders in humans, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications.
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Calcium Signaling Channels Regulate Neuroinflammation and Motivation
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how calcium signaling channels in the brain’s immune cells regulate neuroinflammation and promote the development of behaviors associated with affective mood disorders, according to a recent study published in Science Signaling.
