"Form follows function!" was the credo of early 20th century architects making design choices based on the intended use of the structure. Cell biologists may be turning that on its head. New research by a team working at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2011
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Like all living things, plants depend for their growth and sustenance on elaborate signaling networks to maintain stem cells, cells that have an almost magical regenerative capacity. The signals sent through these networks ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 25, 2011
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When investigating cancer cells, researchers discovered numerous peculiarities: Particular RNA molecules are present in large numbers, particular genes are overactive. Do these characteristics have a relation to cancer? Do ...
Biotechnology
Aug 24, 2011
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Plant biologists have been working for years to nail down the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell's nucleus. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 18, 2011
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UBC researchers have discovered a key mechanism that -- much like a construction site foreperson -- controls the direction of plant growth as well as the physical properties of the biopolymers that plants produce.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2011
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A team of biologists in Japan has uncovered an unexpected role for mitochondria1, the power houses of cells, in the development of sperm in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2011
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes involved in basic biology and disease. ...
Engineering
Jul 27, 2011
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Purdue University biologists identified a new way in which bacteria hijack healthy cells during infection, which could provide a target for new antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 12, 2011
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An Australian-developed software tool that dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes cell biologists to analyse the results of their experiments was unveiled today at Bio2011, the largest global event for the biotechnology ...
Other
Jun 28, 2011
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Human cells have a finite lifespan: They can only divide a certain number of times before they die. However, that lifespan is reset when reproductive cells are formed, which is why the children of a 20-year-old man have the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 24, 2011
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