Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly one-fifth the width of a human ...
Scientists have crossed a startling new frontier in bioengineering: they can now fabricate intricate three-dimensional ...
Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...
New Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center research reveals how dormant metastatic cancer cells protect themselves from the ...
The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller cells at the margin—a size gradient that controls the timing of everything ...
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 ...