In a recent study published in PLOS Pathogens, researchers illustrated a novel strategy likely employed by viruses to promote infection. Viruses likely inhibit a host cell stress response by blocking ...

Under adverse conditions, healthy cells and tumor cells alike form stress granules, clumps of mRNA and protein that are stashed away for later use. Although it has been known that stress granules can ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed the inhibition of stress granules (SG) formation in cells infected by the human common cold coronavirus HCOV-OC43 ...

Tumors that produce more stress granules are more likely to metastasize, according to researchers. The results suggest that drugs to inhibit the formation of these structures might rein in cancer ...

Cells respond to cellular stress by forming stress granules, molecular condensates containing non-translating messenger ribonucleoproteins. Stress granules form during chemotherapy and promote cell ...

Stress granules are an integral part of the stress response that are formed from non-translating mRNAs aggregated with proteins. While much is known about stress granules, the factors that drive their ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their basic functions. One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how ...

Scientists have identified a molecule that plays a pivotal role in determining the fate of cells under stress, much like a Roman emperor deciding the fate of gladiators in the coliseum. The findings ...

TIA1 has a toxic relationship with tau. Toxic to neurons, that is. In the November 20 Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by Benjamin Wolozin of Boston University reported that the RNA-binding ...