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One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

This article explores how researchers are using spatially resolved methods to explore diverse biological processes from ...

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 ...

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal ...

This article explores how single-cell multiomics and spatial transcriptomics are illuminating early pregnancy, uncovering ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.