The physical forces of cells in action
Hot from the press of JACS! Mechanosensitive fluorescent probes to Image membrane tension in mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum & lysosomes! Congrats to our NCCR groups who made it happen!
Protein engineering brings the clinical laboratory to the patients fingertip
From Kai Johnsson’s lab at MPI Heidelberg: a fundamentally new mechanism to precisely measure metabolites using a single drop of blood. The research is published recently in Science.
Measuring the tension of a cell with a fluorescent molecule
Hot from the press of Nature Chemistry and Nature Cell Biology. Congrats to our NCCR groups – Matile, Roux and Loewith – , who made it together!
Structure and conserved function of iso-branched sphingoid bases from the nematode C. elegans
The collaborative efforts of two NCCR groups, the Riezman lab and the Zumbühl group, were recently reported in Chemical Science.
New tools to manipulate biology
In ACS Central Science, three independent research groups from UNIGE and one from UNIBAS reports advances in both how proteins are made and how you can see their expression patterns in live animals.
A new way of fighting bacteria?
Microbiologists at the UNIGE, studied the toxin-antitoxin system HigBA, which can be found in many pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria, and found a novel regulatory mechanism with potential implications on how to fight bacterial infection.
A new method to detect cholesterol
A research team from the UNIGE / NCCR Chemical Biology, in collaboration with the Universities of California and Helsinki, has created a natural cholesterol that can be detected in the body.
It’s all about polarity
NCCR researchers discover a mechanism behind asymmetric cell division, they was able to shed light on how endosomes know to which cell to go to and how they physically do it.
Sphingosine role in calcium homeostasis
The collaborative efforts of several groups across the globe, including the Riezman lab from UNIGE and member of the NCCR network, were recently reported in e-Life journal.
The Cell membrane winds up like a watch
Researchers from the UNIGE / NCCR Chemical Biology, INSERM and the CNRS have just understood how ESCRT-III operates.
