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Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old ...

Illumina on Tuesday unveiled what it calls the world’s largest functional cell dictionary that, when paired with artificial ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Single-cell technologies have revolutionized our ability to interrogate biological systems at unprecedented resolution, revealing complex cellular heterogeneity and dynamic processes that underlie ...

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