About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it ...

Scientists have identified a new variant of the cell cycle that could provide insight into how diseases like cancer occur. Maggie Chen is a scientist and science journalist covering health, biology, ...

How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next. Cells that ...

The cell cycle has been the subject of intense investigation during two periods since Virchow's 1855 realization that cells only arise from pre-existing cells. At the turn of the century ...

A team led by Prof. Wuran Wei from West China Hospital of Sichuan University and Dr. Dechao Feng from the Division of Surgery ...

New research offers unprecedented insight into how an enigmatic enzyme, known as CDK7, drives the cell cycle and cell proliferation.

A patient with HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma was dosed in a phase 1 clinical trial evaluating APR-1051.

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

New imaging reveals a built-in safeguard that allows B cell populations to rapidly expand in germinal centers without ...

When looking at cells with a microscope, the length of different stages of the cell cycle can be estimated using the formula: \(\text{Length of time in phase}=\) \(\frac{\text{observed number of ...