"We are finding the 3D structure of the genome," said Satoshi Namekawa ... In a mouse or human embryo, the cells that will ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells ... classic chicken-and-egg question that has ...

Meiosis is the generation of germ cells (eggs and sperm ... Here the authors determine the high-resolution 3D chromatin architecture of mouse male germ cells during spermatogenesis and show ...

Skin cells renew themselves every two to four weeks. Liver cells can last up to 500 days. Egg cells are particularly long-lived: they are created in the female body even before birth and do not renew ...

For example, proteins change their 3D orientation, typically in response ... Imaging the molecules in the spindle of a dividing cell – a longstanding challenge at MBL and elsewhere -- is another ...

Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.