One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...
Commercial DNA sequencers were first produced in the late 1990s. They have been named second-generation or next-generation sequencers to distinguish them from the first experimental ones, and allowed ...
Cells act as both building blocks and biological robots. Here's everything you need to know about what they do and their role in health and disease. When Walt Whitman wrote that he contains ...
Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...
No one saw the blob takeover coming. In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying ...
Little is known about this vital cell structure, but MIT biologist Thomas Schwartz is trying to change that. Using X-ray crystallography, he is steadily assembling a thorough portrait of the 500 ...