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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a previously unknown system inside cells that works like internal “trade winds,” rapidly carrying essential proteins to the cell’s ...

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Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral ...

As the cell approaches division, it produces the DNA of its future daughter cell (red). While the goal of simulating a real, ...

Five years ago, scientists watched in wonder as synthetic bacteria grew and split into daughter cells. The bacteria’s extremely stripped-down genome still supported its entire life cycle. It was a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying ...

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Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early embryonic development have remained elusive – particularly for egg-laying ...