Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Aug 9, 2023
Human pancreatic cancer cell lines harbor a small population of tumor repopulating cells (TRCs). Soft 3D fibrin gel allows efficient selection and growth of these tumorigenic TRCs. However, rapid and high-throughput identification and classification ...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Jul 12, 2023
The recent outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been a severe threat to the global public health and economy, however, effective drugs to treat COVID-19 are still ...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Oct 1, 2022
The number of patients with heart failure and related deaths is rapidly increasing worldwide, making it a major problem. Cardiac hypertrophy is a crucial preliminary step in heart failure, but its treatment has not yet been fully successful. In this ...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Dec 20, 2021
Apoptosis plays an essential role in maintaining cellular homeostasis and preventing cancer progression. Bcl-xL, an anti-apoptotic protein, is an important modulator of the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway and is a promising target for anticancer ther...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Jul 10, 2021
An early and accurate pregnancy diagnosis method is required to improve the reproductive performance of cows. Here we developed an easy pregnancy detection method using vaginal mucosal membrane (VMM) with application of Reverse Transcription-Loop-med...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Apr 8, 2021
Acquiring events massively from single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) experiments, which is crucial for revealing important biophysical information, is usually not straightforward. A significant amount of human labor is usually required to identi...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Mar 9, 2021
Free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1 or GPR40) has attracted attention for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, and various small-molecule agonists have been developed. However, most FFAR1 agonists as well as endogenous ligands, such as linoleic a...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Sep 18, 2020
Coronaviruses infect many animals, including humans, due to interspecies transmission. Three of the known human coronaviruses: MERS, SARS-CoV-1, and SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen for the COVID-19 pandemic, cause severe disease. Improved methods to predict...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Jul 7, 2020
We propose an image based cellular contractile force evaluation method using a machine learning technique. We use a special substrate that exhibits wrinkles when cells grab the substrate and contract, and the wrinkles can be used to visualize the for...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Apr 4, 2020
The precise and early assessment of cardiotoxicity is fundamental to bring forward novel drug candidates to the pharmaceutical market and to avoid their withdrawal from the market. Recent preclinical studies have attempted to use human-induced plurip...