Giant-Nucleus Cells Form the Foundation of Early-Stage Cancer

Abnormally large giant-nucleus cells that survive iron-induced oxidative stress form the foundation of early-stage cancer, according to a Japanese research team at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine whose findings were published in the journal Redox Biology. While excess iron damages cells and increases cancer risk, a subset of cells survives the damage by … Read more

New ‘Google-like’ Search Engine Scans Millions of Cells for RNA Clues

According to research published in the journal Nature, a new search platform called Malva enables scientists to search RNA sequences across millions of individual cells in seconds without downloading enormous raw datasets or mapping them against a reference genome. Developed by creators including Nikolaus Rajewsky, Daniel León-Periñán, and Nikos Karaiskos, the system has indexed more … Read more