Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the ...

"But having both a bilayer-forming lipid, which provides the basic structure for the cell membrane ... provides a powerful new tool for synthetic biology. This minimal cell system provides ...

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Dec. 19, 2024 — Inflammation in the hippocampus -- the brain's memory center -- significantly alters motivation and behavior in mice, according to new ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

Microtubules tend to grow out from the centrosome to the plasma membrane. In nondividing cells, microtubule networks radiate out from the centrosome to provide the basic organization of the ...

For human researchers, it takes many years of work to discover new super-resolution microscopy techniques. The number of possible optical configurations of a microscope—for example, where to ...

Giovanna Prout from Scale Biosciences discusses the inspiration for and results of the company’s ambitious single-cell sequencing endeavor. The 100 Million Cell Challenge Scales Up Single-Cell ...

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By using computer simulations, researchers demonstrated how cells adapt to repeated stimuli, offering insights that could revolutionize treatments for diseases and further computational biology ...