A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

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Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a ...

2024 marks twenty five years since the launch of Nature Cell Biology. We celebrate our 25 th anniversary with a Focus of commissioned content and an online collection of research articles across the ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, has published new research in ...

Research and drug discovery are undergoing a transformation, driven by the rise of 3D cell culture models that better replicate human biology. Unlike traditional 2D cultures and animal models, which ...

Just as an Apple Watch monitors your fitness and ChatGPT can customize a healthy meal plan for your specific needs, biomedical researchers could soon be able to leverage the power of artificial ...

Allan Albig receives funding from the National Institute of Health. Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside ...

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