Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

Rather than working on the surface of cells like some cancer medicines, small molecules are able to slip inside the cell to ...

Endocrine therapy typically slows cell cycle progression by reducing cyclin D1, which partners with CDK4/6 to promote cell ...

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age ...

To study pattern formation, researchers used a method called the landscape-flux framework — which can be extended to other ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the "crown" of cell division—the kinetochore ...

Abnormal cell proliferation is a major hallmark of cancer. Several proteins are involved in the cell cycle, and most of these ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), formerly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder with no known cure. While three ...

Do cells contain a mechanism that decides on their fates? Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated in a new study that large clusters of molecules ...