Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to ...

Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe, gives scientists an unprecedented look at the extracellular matrix -- the collection of organized molecular structures that fills the spaces between cells in our ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a ...

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

The UBC team's research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, dubbed the highly-specialized neurons ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies ... that carry out the biological processes essential for the cell s functions and maintenance. Single-cell CRISPR screening is a powerful ...

Most neuroscience research carried out up to date has primarily focused on neurons, the most renowned type of cell in the human brain. As a result, the unique functions of other brain cell types are ...

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