Notably, when researchers artificially removed cholesterol from cancer cells using a cholesterol-depleting drug, even the most heat-resistant cells became vulnerable to hyperthermia treatment.

It makes sense that a pervasive loss of protein structure would be lethal, but until recently, the details of how, or if, this kills overheated cells were unknown. Now, however, in a true tour de ...

Brown fat: How cells generate heat by burning calories. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240916115448.htm. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität ...

Extreme heat is making air pollution worse, scientists say. And President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks could drive air ...

Solid-state battery developer QuantumScape shared another exciting milestone today: integrating its long-developed “Cobra” ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...

In tests of nerve cells in lab dishes, one candidate, the protein TRPM2, seemed to respond to heat. The researchers gave mice artificial fevers by injecting “heat up” molecules into the ...

Ying and Yang: The menstrual cycle influences breast cancer and its response to treatment. Laura Bornes, Netherlands Cancer Institute. The researchers hypothesized that this cyclic growth pattern ...

Summer heat and summer storms return Thursday, almost perfectly timed with the official start of astronomical summer on ...

W hite fat stores lipids, brown fat generates heat that warms the body, and beige fat exists somewhere in between. 1 However, scientists know little more about how this trinity of adipose cells differ ...