In a significant breakthrough, US researchers have found in animal studies that Alzheimer's disease can be reversed, ...

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell types.

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T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...

This important study provides a detailed analysis of the transcriptional landscape of the mouse hippocampus in the context of various physiological states. The main conclusions have solid support: ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at Radboud University are figuring out how that works. Their recent study showed how stress changes behavior by ...