Modern humans have existed for more than 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell—dividing, ...

While animal eggs await fertilization, their cell cycle needs to be halted. The molecule responsible for this arrest ? the cytostatic factor ? was first described in 1971. But its identity was not ...

A model developed by LMU biophysicists demonstrates how biological processes form the convoluted internal architecture of the ...

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