As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

Phenotypic 3D cell models incorporate tissue architectures and extracellular matrices to recapitulate the complexity of the ...

The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions ...

The number of cells being analyzed in single-cell projects continues to push the envelope. Last week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) launched the Billion Cells Project—an effort to generate an ...

One of the holy grails of biology is digitally simulating a living cell. If researchers can use computers to more accurately understand how new medicines would react in the body, that could give them ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

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 ...

Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...