This study shows that G1 lengthening follows critical dynamics that amplifies cell–cell variation. A novel mathematical model ...

The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby – or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process ...

"The prize recognizes the confluence of two different approaches to learning about the molecular machinery regulating the cell cycle," says Ira Herskowitz, professor in the department of biochemistry ...

Like embryonic stem cells, pluripotent stem cells can also specialize into any type of cell in the body by following biochemical cues. Scientists have been studying those cues and signals for a long ...

Post-mitotic neurons in the brain that re-enter the cell cycle quickly succumb to senescence, and this re-entry is more common in Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. The phenomenon may ...