A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on one of the most intricate construction projects in biology: how cells build ...

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When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

Cornell researchers have discovered a new way cells regulate how they respond to stress, identifying an interaction between ...

The study's main contributors include (L-R) graduate student Joshua Shaffer, professor Upasna Sharma, and postdoc Alka Gupta. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while ...

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those ...