Just as life pulsates in big vibrant cities, it also prospers in crowded environments inside cells. The interior of cells is ...

A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in our food consumption ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

A tangle of DNA can look like a knotted ball in the cell nucleus. However, the genetic machinery has a complex and regulated structure. Its long repetitive sequences also seemed to have no function.

Plasmodesmata are channels that allow cell-cell communication in plants; based on the functional similarities between facilitated transport within plasmodesmata and into the nucleus, the authors ...

Another protein central to this process is NuMA, which is essential for spindle pole organisation. Normally, NuMA gathers at ...

Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of disordered proteins in cell biology.