T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...

For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

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When cells can’t destroy damaged proteins, a hidden backup system led by NRF1 steps in to prevent toxic buildup.

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at ...

We have a variety of ways to terminate the life of a cell within our bodies. Some of these are programed processes within the cells themselves, while other deaths come from external processes.