Microbial Cell Factories May Help Get to the Root of Understudied Plant Molecules Jan. 16, 2025 — A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so ...

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Jan. 15, 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

Although the small intestine makes up the largest part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, small intestine cancers are rare in the United States. In fact, they account for fewer than 1 in 10 cancers ...

Now scientists have discovered a dormant gene that could be reactivated ... And sure enough, their heart muscle cells began to divide and grow, which significantly improved the heart function ...

Cell growth usually refers to cell proliferation, the increase in cell numbers that occurs through repeated cell division. Cell growth can also refer to the enlargement of cell volume, which can ...