T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...

A lot happens in the first month of human embryo development as a single cell morphs into multitudes. Yet despite its significance, this period is basically a “black box” to researchers, says stem ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal ...

After 40 years at Fred Hutch Cancer Center asking good questions of his own science and the science of his colleagues, cell biologist Jonathan Cooper, PhD has retired from the Basic Sciences Division.

One of the most remarkable things about the human brain is that it changes. A lot. This ability to reinvent itself, to morph, to strengthen some connections and let others fall away, captivates Andrea ...

Modern biology runs on precision, yet so much of the daily lab workflow remains stubbornly manual. Even today, one of the ...

2024 marks twenty five years since the launch of Nature Cell Biology. We celebrate our 25 th anniversary with a Focus of commissioned content and an online collection of research articles across the ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

What is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow? A postdoctoral research fellow (also known as a postdoc) is someone who recently earned their PhD and is continuing to study for a few years in a mentored ...

When I was about 8 years old, my grandmother took me to a local fabric store to pick out a pattern for a dress we could sew together. Piecing together the brown pattern paper, cutting out fabric, and ...

Professor Neil Hunter, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. Hunter, how is also an HHMI Investigator, studies the ...