A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and ...

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

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Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...