Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients-amino acids in particular-are available, cells flip this switch on and begin to grow. Researchers at KAIST and Yonsei University have now ...

After decades of dead ends, researchers have discovered a combination of genes that can generate new cells in the inner ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism that allows plants to carefully coordinate the formation and growth of new leaf parts. The study shows that the hormone auxin regulates different ...

Tumors in all four mouse strains almost always developed a driver mutation that activated the same cancer-promoting signaling system, known as the MAPK pathway. The MAPK pathway is a sequence of ...

Researchers from India and the UK discovered that the Plasmodium enzyme Ark1 acts as a crucial switch for cell division, ...

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Every encounter between a T cell and a potential target—especially when that target is a developing tumor—begins with a rapid ...

Microglia are the most common immune cells in the brain, where they defend against intruders and engulf damaged neurons. Now, ...

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