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All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...