While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The National Institutes of Health is proposing a small change to the ...

In their struggle to survive and prosper, multicellular organisms rely on a complex network of communication between cells, which in humans are believed to number about 40 trillion. Now, in a study ...

The current literature is devoid of a clearcut definition of mitotic catastrophe, a type of cell death that occurs during mitosis. Here, we propose that mitotic catastrophe results from a combination ...

Re “Stem Cell Hypocrisy,” editorial, May 26: Presumably because he believes it is for the overall good, President Bush is perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of more than 1,600 American troops ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed and elucidated a ‘bridge integration’ method to harmonize single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (scRNA-seq) ...

Scientists have published an overall map of how the cells in the human body communicate by systematically analyzing the relationship between ligands and receptors. In their struggle to survive and ...