The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

The genetic code, which controls how living things build proteins based on genetic instructions, may have developed in a ...

The integrated solution enables parallel high-resolution analysis of hundreds to thousands of individual cells, addressing growing demand for scalable, multiomics approaches in single-cell research.

Scientists create models by transplanting human brain cells culled from stem cells into the brains of animals such as mice, ...

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Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating ...

As chronicled by Retraction Watch, nearly 70 years after the biology papers were published ... the worsening issue of so-called “junk science” on Google Scholar, essentially unscientific ...

The UNC School of Medicine recently announced its new Masters of Science in Cell Biology and Physiology, with the program's first cohort set to begin coursework in the fall 2025 semester.

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The estimation of joint torque based on wearable sensors is an important content in human–robot interaction research. Despite existing joint torque estimation models providing high accuracy, their ...

To achieve this goal we combine the latest methods and technologies in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and microscopy.