Cellular death is a fundamental concept in the biological sciences. Given its significance, its definition depends on the ...

Researchers reveal epigenetic memory works like a dimmer switch, enabling more cell types than previously recognized.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

Jessica Burgoyne, leveraging a deep background in research methods and a passion for legal issues, distills complex legal concepts into accessible insights. With over 100 published articles, her work ...

Previous approaches to cell-type identification were based on identifying the presence of a small set of known markers. Current high-throughput, single-cell sequencing methods, on the other hand, ...

Stem cells are central to organ development and renewal. In most organs, stem cells are located in specific regions and, in some cases, can be identified through several intrinsic properties, like ...

A matrix of dots used to form a single character on a display screen or printer. For example, an 8x16 cell is made up of 16 rows of eight dots. Character cells are displayed and printed contiguously; ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something ...