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Acorn Worm Larva Undergoes Extensive Cellular Reprogramming During Metamorphosis

A squishy worm originating as a floating, head-like form within the Pacific Ocean is reshaping scientific understanding regarding metamorphosis at the cellular scale.

14 Sep 2026

Study Redefines Structural Framework of Primate Cone Photoreceptor Outer Segments

For over 60 years, scientists have debated a basic structural question about cone photoreceptors, the cells that let vertebrates see color: are their light-sensing disk membranes closed off inside the cell, or are they open to the extracellular space?

12 Sep 2026

Hybrid Microscopy Platform Tracks Neuronal Activity and Oxygen Delivery Simultaneously

The brain is a black box of densely packed neurons, blood vessels and immune cells, all locked away in a sealed skull. Washington University in St. Louis’ Song Hu has dedicated his career to unlocking that puzzle box by developing new ways to “see” inside, and his team’s newest innovation could give researchers a new view of how brain cells and blood vessels work together and what happens when the coupling between the two breaks down.

12 Sep 2026

Inhibiting Immune Pathway Restores Capacity to Eliminate Non-Dividing Senescent Cells

A team led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators has identified a protein that may hide aging cells from the body’s immune system, allowing them to build up and contribute to age-related health problems.

12 Sep 2026

Spatial Imaging Maps YAP Pathway Activity in Hepatic Stellate Cells

UCLA researchers have identified a pathway in liver cells that may explain how statins could help prevent or slow the development of liver cancer associated with fatty liver disease.

12 Sep 2026

Researchers Locate Cortical Cells That Actively Trigger Brain Sleep

What makes the brain fall asleep? For nearly a century, scientists have looked to structures deep within the brain for the answer.

12 Sep 2026

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism Behind Persistent Obesity and Weight Relapse

Two enduring biological mysteries have remained unsolved for decades: why almost everyone who loses weight gains it back, no matter how they lost it, and why obesity passes from mother to child at rates that diet and environment cannot explain. Now, scientists from Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University have identified why.

11 Sep 2026

New Insights Into How Giant-Nucleus Cells Promote Early-Stage Cancer Growth

Iron is an essential micronutrient, but excess iron can damage cells and increase cancer risk. While many cells die from iron-induced oxidative stress, a subset survives and may become cancerous. Previously, the identity of these surviving cells was unclear.

11 Sep 2026

Reprogramming Tumor Immune Microenvironment to Combat Aggressive Glioblastoma Brain Cancer

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a potential new approach to treating glioblastoma that could help the immune system fight the aggressive brain cancer while improving the effectiveness of existing chemotherapy.

11 Sep 2026

New AI Model Unites Protein Sequences and Structures for Evolutionary Insights

An international team of researchers, including Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a protein language model that brings together two fundamental sources of information about proteins: their amino acid sequences and their three-dimensional structures.

11 Sep 2026

Hidden Immune Cells May Hold Key to Tackling Female Infertility

University of Manchester scientists have uncovered a hidden role for immune cells in the womb, opening the door to new treatments for infertility, miscarriage and other reproductive conditions that affect millions of women worldwide.

10 Sep 2026

SMART Researchers Discover First PLP-Dependent Enzyme That Influences Bacterial Protein Production

Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology’s (SMART) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group, alongside collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), and institutions in the United States, Poland, and France, have discovered aminovaleramididine synthetase (AvaS), the first identified pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme responsible for producing a chemical modification linked to how bacteria respond to metabolic stress.

10 Sep 2026

IU Biologists Find a Hidden Weak Spot in How Bacteria Build the Tails They Use to Move

New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like tails they use to move.

10 Sep 2026

Novel Microscopy Method Captures Live Body-Wide Organismal Cellular Signaling

We can't hear it, but the different parts of our body are in constant conversation, communicating to keep the entire system running efficiently.

10 Sep 2026

Study Reveals Structural Roughness as Key Factor in Tumor Detachment Dynamics

In 2024, malignant tumors caused more than 21,300 deaths in Austria, 4.7% more than in 2014. Faced with a similarly pressing global challenge, scientists are striving to better understand what drives cancer cells to grow, spread, and invade healthy tissue.

10 Sep 2026

Multi-Omic Integration Reveals Novel Gene-Disease Links in Undiagnosed Rare Conditions

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Genomics England have shown that measuring proteins in the blood can provide important additional clues about the effects of genetic variants, helping to identify diagnoses and potential new disease-causing genes that genome sequencing alone has been unable to resolve.

10 Sep 2026

Advanced Gene Editing Provides Essential Tool for Studying Early Human Embryonic Development

A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos-giving scientists indispensable tools for understanding normal human development-but has also uncovered important risks that currently preclude the use of the techniques in the clinic.

10 Sep 2026

Researchers Discover Groundbreaking Protein-Stabilizing Antiviral for Ebola

A University of Minnesota-led multi-institutional research team has discovered a highly potent small molecule that blocks Ebola virus entry by stabilizing the virus's entry protein and provides strong protection when given orally in a preclinical model.

10 Sep 2026

Human Embryos Repair Single-Strand DNA Damage Reliably but Fail at Double-Strand Breaks

Although DNA repair is one of the fundamental processes required for normal human embryonic development, little has been known about how it operates during the earliest stages of development.

10 Sep 2026

Researchers Propose Roadmap for Brain-Wide Lifetime Electrophysiology in Mammalian Models

Understanding the brain requires tools that can follow neural activity across many scales: from millisecond electrical spikes in individual neurons to brain-wide circuit dynamics that change over months, years, and even a lifetime.

10 Sep 2026

Cell Biology

Acorn Worm Larva Undergoes Extensive Cellular Reprogramming During Metamorphosis

Study Redefines Structural Framework of Primate Cone Photoreceptor Outer Segments

Hybrid Microscopy Platform Tracks Neuronal Activity and Oxygen Delivery Simultaneously

Inhibiting Immune Pathway Restores Capacity to Eliminate Non-Dividing Senescent Cells

Spatial Imaging Maps YAP Pathway Activity in Hepatic Stellate Cells

Researchers Locate Cortical Cells That Actively Trigger Brain Sleep

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism Behind Persistent Obesity and Weight Relapse

New Insights Into How Giant-Nucleus Cells Promote Early-Stage Cancer Growth

Reprogramming Tumor Immune Microenvironment to Combat Aggressive Glioblastoma Brain Cancer

New AI Model Unites Protein Sequences and Structures for Evolutionary Insights

Hidden Immune Cells May Hold Key to Tackling Female Infertility

SMART Researchers Discover First PLP-Dependent Enzyme That Influences Bacterial Protein Production

IU Biologists Find a Hidden Weak Spot in How Bacteria Build the Tails They Use to Move

Novel Microscopy Method Captures Live Body-Wide Organismal Cellular Signaling

Study Reveals Structural Roughness as Key Factor in Tumor Detachment Dynamics

Multi-Omic Integration Reveals Novel Gene-Disease Links in Undiagnosed Rare Conditions

Advanced Gene Editing Provides Essential Tool for Studying Early Human Embryonic Development

Researchers Discover Groundbreaking Protein-Stabilizing Antiviral for Ebola

Human Embryos Repair Single-Strand DNA Damage Reliably but Fail at Double-Strand Breaks

Researchers Propose Roadmap for Brain-Wide Lifetime Electrophysiology in Mammalian Models

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