"The prize recognizes the confluence of two different approaches to learning about the molecular machinery regulating the cell cycle," says Ira Herskowitz, professor in the department of biochemistry ...

Like embryonic stem cells, pluripotent stem cells can also specialize into any type of cell in the body by following biochemical cues. Scientists have been studying those cues and signals for a long ...

This is a graphical abstract, published with the Molecular Cell paper. Papagiannakis et al. performed metabolite and cell-cycle measurements in single cells to show that the cell cycle is a ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and even today only 10% of people survive lung cancer for 10 years or more in the UK. One challenge in treating lung cancer is that lung ...

De novo cholesterol biosynthesis is a key metabolic vulnerability in rhabdomyosarcoma. Its inhibition halts cell ...