As people age, so do their stem cells. Scientists have known for years that the stem cells that go on to become blood cells ...

Biological condensates within cells—the yellow masses seen within these long cylinders—provide cells with a way to control their internal electrostatic biochemistry. Credit: Yifan Dai, Washington ...

The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...

Edited by: Thomas W. Durson M. Søgaard, K. Tani, R.R. Ye, S. Geromanos, P. Tempst, T. Kirchhausen, J.E. Rothman, T. Söllner, "A rab protein is required for the ...

Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free ...

Cell growth and division constitute fundamental processes by which organisms maintain homeostasis, adapt to environmental cues and propagate genetic material. In prokaryotes, cell enlargement and ...

Researchers have shown that the formation of biological condensates affects cellular activity far beyond their immediate vicinity. The results show that they may be a previously missing mechanism by ...

TO TRAP A SNAP: In their paper, Thomas Söllner and his colleagues assigned functions to previouslly identified components of a transport pathway between various cellular compartments. Vesicles, ...

Biological condensates within cells – the yellow masses seen within these long cylinders – provide cells with a way to control their internal electrostatic biochemistry. DURHAM, N.C. -- Most ...