Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

Now, researchers at MIT have discovered a way to manipulate these early cellular motions using light, providing a new tool to ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...