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Feb. 10, 2025 — Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This complex process, known as cell differentiation, holds the key to ...

The work will be of interest to scientists working on a spectrum of fields including cell mechanics, cell behaviors, and cancer research. The intricate interplay between actomyosin contractility and ...

The concept includes anatomy, physiology, cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics ... of vascular smooth muscle cells, extracellular matrix degradation and vessel wall inflammation, all of ...

Molecular and cellular biology research studies molecules and cells in order to improve human health and the environment. Our research groups have many fruitful interdisciplinary interactions with ...

The CMB program has at its underpinnings didactic training in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, data analysis, scientific communications, grant writing, and ethics, along with research rotations ...

The formation of a complex organism from a single cell is one of the most amazing wonders of biology. Embryonic development is characterized by a careful ... interaction with the extracellular matrix; ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) is a potent oncogenic driver that results in the downstream hyperactivation of MAPK signaling while simultaneously increasing replication stress (RS) and accumulation of DNA ...

By Erica Ackerberg Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives ...