55+ min ago   (75+ words) Rare cells punch far above their weight in biology. Populations that make up less than one percent of a tissue can drive tumor progression, immune evasion, drug resistance, and relapse, while others mark the first steps of lineage commitment or…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (529+ words) Neuroscientists can now record electrical storms of activity from tens of thousands of neurons at once, but a stubborn bottleneck has long stood between the raw data and discovery: turning enormous three-dimensional calcium imaging videos into clean, trustworthy lists of…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (880+ words) Cryо-electron tomography has quietly become one of the most powerful windows into the interior of cells, allowing researchers to peer at the molecular machinery of life in a state close to its native, frozen-hydrated condition....

5+ hour, 5+ min ago   (689+ words) For decades, biologists have treated protein abundance as the closest available proxy for what a cell is actually doing. Measure how much of each protein a cell produces, the reasoning went, and you have a reasonable snapshot of its functional…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (704+ words) Every cell in the body carries a hidden biography. Long before a researcher harvests a tissue and sequences its contents, that cell has been bombarded by hormones, growth factors, cytokines and stress signals, and its current state is the accumulated…...

19+ hour, 19+ min ago   (879+ words) Scientists have unveiled a new computational framework that brings together two of the most powerful technologies in modern biology—single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics—to reconstruct how populations of cells redistribute and change state across time within living tissues....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (55+ words) Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed that is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising non-food feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. The…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (829+ words) Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, working with a collaborator at the University of California, Irvine, have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that promises to make sense of one of the most data-rich but technically unruly corners…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (61+ words) Micro-expressions are the fleeting, involuntary facial movements that betray a person’s true emotional state in a fraction of a second, often lasting less than half a second and appearing on the face before any conscious attempt at suppression can take…...