The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

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The researchers believe the hemifusome works by creating vesicles, tiny bubble-like structures that surround substances in our cells and move them around. “You can think of vesicles like little ...

Hemifusomes constitute up to 10% of vesicular organelles at the cell periphery but do not engage in canonical endocytic pathways, according to a team of biologists from the University of Virginia and ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

1 Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China 2 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China Chimeric antigen receptor natural ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells extremely efficiently, without needing to go ...

Effective models could unlock some of what is still unknown in biology and help your doctor find the right treatment. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week suggests that fat cells can be engineered into a treatment that literally ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

DNA on Earth is built from sugars with a property known as right-handedness. Though left-handed sugars aren't used by any known life, scientists can create them—but now, researchers say they shouldn't ...