The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Celldetective is an open-source software integrating segmentation, tracking, and event detection to perform high-throughput end-to-end study of dynamic cell interactions, without requiring coding ...

The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to ...

A new genetic screening method allows researchers to efficiently modulate individual genes across entire tissues and provides ...

UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

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Scientists have created a cell from scratch and believe they can engineer it, which would be a medical phenomenon.

A framework for analyzing single-cell genomics data, in which geometrical properties are harnessed to obtain insights on cellular diversity, including precise clustering, clear visualizations, and ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

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