A research team from the School of Biomedical Sciences at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), ...

A novel, freely available AI tool has cut the time it takes to determine chromatin structure from days to minutes. The 3D structure of DNA is important for controlling cell-specific gene expression ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...

High-resolution imaging reveals a large protein complex in egg cells that stores key developmental molecules. The structure ...

Bioprinting is a bioengineering technique that utilizes the principles of 3D printing to build 3D tissue-like structures out of bioinks mixed with living cells. First making an appearance in 1988, ...

Two landmark studies have advanced understanding of human cell biology, one unveiling a fluorescent probe for live imaging of centrioles and cilia, and another revealing how polyploid cancer cells ...