The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions ...

A new study published in Nature Biotechnology shows that stem cell differentiation is linked to cellular structures called P-bodies, providing a potential means of controlling cell identity.

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialise, age or die. This applies just as much to mammalian cells as it does to seemingly ...

Shedding light on what determines how cells become what they are meant to be—nerves, bone, muscles, etc.—can also help researchers understand how diseases develop when these biological programs break ...

Researchers uncovered how polyamines influence cell fate by altering protein phosphorylation and alternative splicing. The ...

What do cells want to be when they grow up, and how do they get there? Intrigued by these questions, many developmental biologists try to follow the journeys of cells from when they can virtually ...

Human cells decode dynamics Wnt signals using an anti-resonant filter that suppresses intermediate-frequency inputs and is ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center and the University of Oxford have found that a cellular housekeeping function called autophagy—by which cell components are broken down and recycled—plays a ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...