Cell polarity is the asymmetric organisation of several cellular components, including its plasma membrane, cytoskeleton or organelles. This asymmetry can be used for specialised functions, such ...

A group of researchers has won a large science prize for a discovery not quite two decades in the making. It was long thought that only simple microbes had mastered a chemical conversion reaction ...

Adult tissues are maintained by the proliferation of tissue stem cells that constitute only a small fraction of the total cell mass. The same applies to some tumours: a small number of cancer stem ...