Geometry shapes life: Embryo curvature acts as instruction manual for coordinated cell division

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...
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A default silencing mechanism restrains stress-induced genes in C. elegans

This valuable study identifies a novel regulator of stress-induced gene quiescence in C. elegans: the multi-Zinc-finger protein ZNF-236. The work provides evidence for an active mechanism that ...
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How much does a single cell weigh? The brilliant physics trick of weighing something less than a trillionth of a gram

How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...