Fowler showed that tropomodulin's function is critical for development of the heart and blood cells, and for proper function of many cells and tissues, including eye lens, neurons in the brain, ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

A single primary cilium exists as a tapered cylindrical projection on almost every cell type in our bodies. These primary cilia serve as critical mediators of certain types of intercellular ...

That means researchers can now use it to better understand how genes function, how diseases start and how to design better treatments. "Every single cell can have a different chromosome structure," ...

sc-SPORT offers a way to probe RNA structure at the single-cell level. It reveals cell-to-cell heterogeneity in RNA folding. Previous work on RNA structure in diverse organisms has connected RNA ...

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Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...