A study headed by researchers at NYU Langone Health has found that herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) partially liquifies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to help copy itself ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) ...

Patients with this genetic disorder have a form of dwarfism — they are short in stature and have underdeveloped ears and ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

Some animals age in ways that look very different from the way humans and most other species age. A small group of creatures ...

How can a brain as sophisticated as ours arise from a single cell? This question, long at the heart of neuroscience research, ...

Researchers have found that reducing dietary protein may help slow liver tumour growth, particularly in cases where the liver ...

A new 4D simulation of a minimal bacterium shows how digital twins could transform biology, but also highlights the huge GPU demands behind whole-cell modelling.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...

Adele L. Marston is in the Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Centromeres vary widely in size and DNA sequence, ranging from ...

Researchers found that SMC proteins drive bacterial DNA separation by compacting chromosomes lengthwise, generating repulsive ...

Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive ...