1. How did the idea of transdifferentiation arise? In the late 1990s, sex-mismatched transplants and experiments with rodents revealed apparent transgressions of embryonic cell fates. Bone marrow ...

Now, scientists at Scripps Research have identified a key player in the placenta's transformation-a molecule called galectin-3 that binds to sugar molecules on specific cell surface proteins, likely ...

Membrane fusion and budding mediate fundamental biological processes like intracellular trafficking, exocytosis, and endocytosis. For many decades, fusion has been thought to open a nanometer-range ...

The study of genetics and cell fusion in filamentous fungi reveals a complex interplay between genetic regulation and cellular connectivity that is central to colony formation, development, and ...