One subpopulation of cells, which he and his colleagues call CL1, had a cuboid-like geometry, whereas the other, dubbed CL2, was composed of spindle-shaped cells. Both cell populations expressed ...

Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA have announced today to have successfully transformed adult stem cells ...

Haemoglobin allows them to carry oxygen from the lungs to the working muscles. Red blood cells are disc-shaped cells with no nucleus. They are very small but their flattened shape gives a ...

Eggs pop out of ovaries. But what propels them has been unknown. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut explain in an article published in the September 18 issue of the Proceedings of the ...

Read more Julia Joung created an “atlas” to help scientists see how specific proteins shape cells into muscle, neurons, and more. Read more Subscribe now and save 17% to receive full access ...

Cancer cells can change shape to travel around the body and spread (metastasize), but how they know when to do this has ...

Researchers from the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) led by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sören Brandenburg have identified a protein that plays a central role in the heart's adaptation ...

Specifically, we study how non-canonical translation pathways shape cell growth and differentiation. Accumulating evidence supports the essentiality of mRNA translation control in these cell fate ...