This study shows that G1 lengthening follows critical dynamics that amplifies cell–cell variation. A novel mathematical model ...

The organizational principles of the eukaryotic cell cycle have yet to be pinned down, and two opposing models have been put forward. Genetic and proteomics analyses in a model eukaryote, fission ...

The awe-inspiring process of cell division can turn a fertilized egg into a baby – or a cancerous cell into a malignant tumor. With so much at stake, nature keeps it tightly controlled in a process ...

"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 ...

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 ...