What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded $2.95 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study control of cell growth and ...

Researchers from Brown, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, developed a new approach to ...

Research into cell cycle regulation and size control in microorganisms has yielded a nuanced understanding of how these entities maintain homeostasis and synchronise growth with division. In both ...

Teemu Miettinen discusses his innovative method for measuring intracellular water, revealing its critical role in cell ...

Cell division in large embryos is coordinated by spatial waves of Cyclin B–Cdk1 activity that spread through the cytoplasm and affect cortical contractility. However, ...

A proof-of-concept trial by researchers at ETH Zurich, the University Hospitals of Basel and Zurich, and the Basel-Land Cantonal Hospital, demonstrated that treating breast cancer patients with a low, ...