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How Tiny Molecular Tethers Prevent Plant Cells From Crumpling

Water deficit resistance in plants has long been a topic of interest for cultivating reliable crops.

3 Jun 2026

A New Non-Destructive Tool Maps Active Transcription Profiles in Living Tissue

Cell function is determined by how DNA is expressed into proteins. That process includes two main steps - transcription, when messenger RNA (mRNA) makes copies of active genes, and translation, when mRNA guides protein assembly.

2 Jun 2026

Study Maps Molecular Arrangement of Powerful Ice-Growing Bacteria on Non-Organic Surfaces

Bacteria from the Middle East have caused precipitation all the way out in California. The same bacteria, which are known to attack plants, have also been found embedded within lumps of hail in West Africa.

20 May 2026

New 3D Human Liver Model Mimics Chronic Disease For 30 Days

Researchers developed a 3D liver model that functions for a month, replicating inflammation and fibrosis, crucial for studying liver diseases and therapies.

19 May 2026

Cells Use a Timing Mechanism to Filter Persistent Physical Forces

Scientists have discovered how cells decide when to respond to physical forces, potentially opening new avenues for tackling diseases such as cancer and fibrosis.

30 Apr 2026

Force-Sensing Microgripper Enables Safe Handling of Cell Spheroids

In tissue engineering, the tiniest bit of improper force can harm a living culture. 3D clumps of cells - known as spheroids - can be used to model complex human tissues, because they can re-create specific cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions.

30 Apr 2026

Plant Peroxisome Study Offers New Insights Into Conserved Cellular Functions

For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage when they can't absorb light just yet, they rely on other sources, like fatty acids.

25 Apr 2026

New MIND Tool Enables Precise Control of Complex Microbiomes

University of California San Diego researchers have developed a new tool for understanding and modifying any microbiome, including the human microbiome.

22 Apr 2026

New Strategy Enables 3D Tissue Engineering Without the Use of Scaffolds

Biological tissues have a remarkable ability to organize and change shape, driven by forces generated by their own cells. One of the major challenges in bioengineering is harnessing this natural behavior to design synthetic living materials capable of adopting predetermined shapes. However, precisely controlling how a tissue behaves and directing its internal forces to adopt the desired shape remains a significant scientific challenge.

17 Apr 2026

3D Microfluidic Tumor Model Reveals How High-Fat Diets Promote Invasive Cancer

Princeton researchers have revealed new links between high-fat diets and aggressive breast cancer, demonstrating the important role fat plays in making some cancers more invasive.

7 Apr 2026

New Tool Directly Transfers Cytoplasm and Organelles Between Living Cells

Cells are not isolated units; they continuously exchange proteins, genetic material, and even entire organelles with their neighbors.

6 Apr 2026

Implantable Cell Factory Device Delivers Sustained Biologic Drug Production

Implanting living cells as long-term drug producers could transform treatment for numerous diseases, but it is difficult to house the tiny workers in quantities high enough to ensure dosage needs are met while also keeping the cells alive and thriving.

28 Mar 2026

New Platform Models Cancer Metastasis and Cell Cluster Survival

Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary tumor to other parts of the body, is difficult to study in the lab, in part because researchers lack reliable ways to recreate the conditions cancer cells encounter as they travel through the bloodstream.

28 Mar 2026

Scientists Develop Method to Sequence Proteins Using DNA Technology

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest questions.

19 Mar 2026

Evo 2 AI Model Learns Patterns Across DNA of Life

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature.

5 Mar 2026

Study Reveals Cellular Blueprint of the Human Liver

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians capture the spatial microstructure of multiple lobes of this multitasking organ.

24 Feb 2026