At the heart of our cells, a previously unknown structure has just been identified, shedding new light on essential ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the ...

Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is asymmetric. A team led by Prof. Dr. Esther Zanin at the Department of Biology ...

Changes in cell shape before division influence how they divide. When a cell elongates, for example while moving or on a structured substrate, it adopts an isomorphic division mode. In this mode, it ...

If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that ...

For example, in the context of cancer cells, this type of "non-round," asymmetric division could generate different cell behaviors known to promote cancer progression through metastasis.

After 40 years at Fred Hutch Cancer Center asking good questions of his own science and the science of his colleagues, cell biologist Jonathan Cooper, PhD has retired from the Basic Sciences Division.

Dr. Shendure and his colleagues set out to use CRISPR to record a cell’s history. They engineered cells in zebrafish, a species that is easy to study because its embryos are transparent.

In other cases, a healthy egg and sperm form an embryo that divides oddly; for example, instead of one cell dividing into two, it might become three.