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Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

Cells are typically studied outside the body under controlled laboratory conditions. However, conventional flat cell culture ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

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Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. All living things are made of cells which are differentiated to perform different functions. Substances move into or out of the cell and enzymes are catalysts ...

With the ease of online publishing, the number of journals has exploded, and with them the number of papers. It has gotten tough for any researcher to stay on top of their field. Finding potentially ...