How bacteria learned to target numerous cell types

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion

As organisms develop from embryos, groups of cells migrate and reshape themselves to form all manner of complex tissues.
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Scientists aim to create the world's largest sickle cell disease stem cell library

Scientists are creating an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based research library that opens the door to invaluable sickle cell disease research and novel therapy development. Scientists at the ...
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Mechanotransduction at a distance: mechanically coupling the extracellular matrix with the nucleus

Mechanical forces influence the growth and shape of virtually every tissue and organ in our bodies. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which individual cells sense these mechanical ...
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Scientists Create First Synthetic Bacterial Genome -- Largest Chemically Defined Structure Synthesized In The Lab

A team of 17 researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute has created the largest man-made DNA structure by synthesizing and assembling the 582,970 base pair genome of a bacterium, Mycoplasma ...