The year 2022 has been declared by Pedro Sanchez, President of Spain, as the Year of Ramon y Cajal on the 170th anniversary ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

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In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers ...

Cilia are evolutionarily conserved, microtubule-based organelles that project from the surface of most eukaryotic cells and play a central role in sensing ...

The research, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and published Jan. 21 in Nature, showed that deoxyhypusine ...

Vitamin B12 is long understood as a vital nutrient required for red blood cell formation and nerve function, but a new ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

The mini review brings together emerging evidence showing that glial cells actively influence disease progression and ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

Extremophile microbes from hot springs may hold the secret to the next generation of natural, eco-friendly sunscreen.