Amber Dance is a freelance science journalist in the Los Angeles area. The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from ...
Certain cells, commonly called excitable cells, are unique because of their ability to generate electrical signals. Although ...
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A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...
The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease and metabolic process. Each cell in that ...
Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, thousands of molecules coordinate with one another in highly precise steps, all within a fraction ...
The cells of animals, plants, and fungi start their lives by being torn apart. Cells are born by division, and just before a parent cell becomes two daughters, it doubles its nuclear DNA and carefully ...