An international team of researchers from Singapore and the United Kingdom has identified an enzyme that regulates the production of sperm and egg cells...
Generating functional pancreatic β (beta) cells in the lab has been a challenge for diabetes researchers. When human stem cells develop into beta cells...
A team of scientists from the United States has demonstrated that ‘acoustic tweezers’ can be used to trap and manipulate single cells along three dimensions...
Viruses are fully-alive organisms that share a long evolutionary history with cells, according to a new study published last week in the journal Science...
Chromosomes play an active role in animal cell division, reports a study published in the journal Nature.
Until now, it was believed that chromosomes only...
A large group of researchers led by Cambridge University scientists has for the first time mapped an enzyme called telomerase.
This illustration shows...
A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells.
In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...
