cell and molecular biology

The University of Texas Southwestern scientist studied the roles of glucagon and insulin in regulating blood glucose, leading to several successful treatments.

Olivia Ballew, a graduate student at Indiana University, is currently writing her dissertation while preparing to compete in the upcoming Olympic marathon trials.

Genetic engineers have co-opted base editing machinery to enable information storage and processing in the DNA of bacterial and mammalian cells.

Meet the University of Toronto’s Yu Sun, whose work developing magnetic tweezers is featured in our Modus Operandi column.

When hair follicle stem cells lose their protein-based death cue, they take on a new role helping to repair wounds in skin.

CRISPRed heart muscle cells from humans gain the ability to make a protein missing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A study links having a male twin with women’s educational, financial, and childbearing decisions. Researchers suspect prenatal exposure to testosterone may play a role.

Zooming in on the ovarioles of Drosophila could reveal links between muscles, nutrition, and the development of eggs.

Asexual female nematodes use their male offsprings’ sperm to fertilize eggs, but cast away their genes.

A Minnesota-based company reports the sale of a soybean oil engineered to have greater stability and no trans-fat.

The cephalopods use several strategies to manipulate light and produce their colorful patterns.

Scientists have manipulated the electrical signals that help guide flatworms in regenerating their body parts to encourage a flatworm to grow two heads.

A human breast cancer cell divides as it moves through surrounding blood vessel cells in vitro.

Human lung cancer cells can form an invasive pack that coordinates its movement during metastasis.  

Scientist D. Allan Drummond’s study of life in sculpture aims to provoke curiosity and wonder about the world.

Researchers find that stem cells in the human intestine may provide up to 10 percent of circulating blood cells.

Progenitor cells in the pancreas of humans get developmental cues from proteins in their environment.

The hybrid cells promote tumor heterogeneity and possible metastasis, a new study in mice and humans shows.