cell & molecular biology
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Long Live the Y
By Megan Scudellari
Despite suggestions to the contrary, the Y chromosome is not necessarily rotting away.
How Tigers Get Their Stripes
By Bob Grant
For the first time researchers have demonstrated the molecular tango that gives rise to repeating patterns in developing animal embryos.
Alzheimer’s Drugs Harmful?
By Bob Grant
The researcher who helped develop an Alzheimer’s treatment now in clinical trials warns that the compound may actually impair memory.
Zooming into Life
By Edyta Zielinska
Teenagers create a program that lets viewers compare the sizes of things on earth and in space.
Propitious Prions
By Megan Scudellari
Often thought to be artifacts of the lab, prions in yeast may actually drive the evolution of beneficial traits.
Cell Change Up
By Cristina Luiggi
Imaging cell cytoskeletons during early embryonic development leads researchers to uncover a new regulator of cell shape
Cancer’s First Step
By Megan Scudellari
A single mutant cell breaks free of its neighbors in the early stages of cancer development.
Brain Proteins May Be Key to Aging
By Bob Grant
Deterioration of long-lived proteins on the surface of neuronal nuclei in the brain could lead to age-related defects in nervous function.
Sex, Deconstructed
By Megan Scudellari
Hormones in the brain control sex-specific behaviors by activating individual genetic programs.
RNA Chases Its Tail
By Sabrina Richards
New research suggests that circular RNA transcripts are not as rare as previously thought.
