An international study led by the University of Basel has discovered that nuclear pore complexes—tiny gateways in the nuclear ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive ...

In recent years, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has seen remarkable breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how organisms grow, age and regenerate, with major ...

Interdisciplinary approaches in developmental biology have revealed how cells build the embryonic bones of the skull vault ...

Cells are the basic units of life — but when it comes to cells, if you think basic means simple, think again. Cells are complicated, with many millions of biochemical reactions per second seething ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a ...