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New Computational Framework Tracks Cell Migration Across Space and Time

Scientists have unveiled a new computational framework that brings together two of the most powerful technologies in modern biology—single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcrip...

Beyond the Wet Lab Bottleneck: The Race to Build Biology’s Generative Engine

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Nature has spent roughly 3.8 billion years conducting the most sprawling, creative research and development campaign in history. Evol...

Tracing 700 million years of cell evolution

RNA sequencing combined with AI helps Unify compare cell types across distant species by identifying shared biological functions even when individual genes no longer directly...

Live Cell Shapes Reveal How Tissues Choose Their Final Identities

Cells do not become specialized in a single instant. During development, they gradually change their molecular programs, position, shape, polarity and behavior before reaching a ma...

DNA Typewriter, PEtracer Map Mouse Development Through Organogenesis

Two DNA-recording systems traced cellular family trees across mouse embryogenesis, offering new insight into how organs form and when developing cells commit to specific fates. The...

Science Shared: October 17

This week: Genetics dominates the most shared papers of the week

Scientists Just Discovered a Major Problem With Lab-Grown Human Embryo Models

A map built from more than 14,000 embryo cells reveals what stem cell models get right about early human development and where researchers could improve them. Under a microscope, a...

The DNA Balancing Act in Boosting Bacterial Productivity

A new mathematical model tracks how plasmids move through competing E. coli populations, revealing how antibiotics, genetic costs, and plasmid loss could shape biotechnology cultur...

The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close? The post The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab appeared...

Cell Death Regulator BI-1 Emerges as Key Switch in Plant Immunity Against Oomycete Pathogens

Scientists studying how plants fend off one of agriculture’s most destructive groups of pathogens have uncovered a molecular switch that sits at the crossroads of cellular stress a...

Dynamic Landscape Analysis of cell fate decisions provides predictive models of neural development from single-cell data

by Marine Fontaine, M. Joaquina Delás, Meritxell Sáez, Rory J. Maizels, Elizabeth Finnie, James Briscoe, David A. Rand Building a mechanistic understanding of cell fate decisions...

A single temporary stimulus can redirect cell fate without permanent gene control

A new computational framework that identifies minimal temporary gene-control interventions to steer cells toward desired states while preserving cellular plasticity.

Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains

A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.

Metabolic and developmental rate divergence between serially homologous cells underlies an evolutionary innovation in &l...

by Ben R. Hopkins, Olga Barmina, Xinying Wang, Mandy M. Situ, Haley A. Bolanos, Shizhan Nie, Artyom Kopp The individualization of serially repeated homologs is one route through w...

Locked and Loaded: Structural Studies Reveal How the SCREW Peptide Engages Its NUT Receptor

Plant cells live in a world of whispers. Unable to move, they coordinate growth, immunity and development through a dense conversation of small secreted peptides that drift through...

A Method for Assessing Lab-Grown Stem Cell-Derived Embryo Models

Researchers developed a method for testing how closely lab-grown blastoid models resemble real human embryos, finding that while some models perform well, none fully captures the c...

How Systems Biology Is Adopting an Engineering Framework

Everything from metabolic pathways optimized for efficiency to brain blood vessels designed as protective shock absorbers demonstrates multi-level planning. Source

FuChi is a cell cycle biosensor for tracking cell cycle dynamics during avian development

by Zoe R. Sudderick, Tiernan Briggs, Shirooza Mubarak, Melinda Van Kerckvoorde, Ana R. Hernandez Rodriguez, Sudeepta K. Panda, Jon Riddell, Cameron Batho-Samblas, Lorna Taylor, Lyn...

Cells Put a Price Tag on Sensing Their World

Author(s): Tuan Minh PhamA new model shows how cells could optimize biochemical sensing by balancing information gained against energy spent.[Physics 19, 121] Published Mon Sep 14,...

Even ancient bacteria possessed intercellular communication structures like humans today, study finds

Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialized connecting structures. An international team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University...

Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Source

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AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

How the brain dances across critical boundaries

by Audrey J. Sederberg The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. A new PLOS B...