The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental, or Microb...

One of the greatest joys of being a PI is mentoring the next generation of scientists. At a large public university (Woohoo… Go Dawgs!), I have the amazing luxury of hearing from many enthusiastic stu...

During cytokinesis in amphibian and echinoderm embryos, propagating waves of Rho activity and F-actin assembly - cortical excitability - are amplified and focused at the equatorial cortex by the mitot...

Skin exhibits a remarkable capacity for regeneration, which requires the coordinated reconstitution of diverse cell types and structures. Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that detect gentle touch...

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Le et al. show that in Xenopus embryos, local ectodermal tissue flows provide a directional cue that polarizes and guides embryonic myeloid cells migration via cell-on-cell interactions.

The kinetochore--the molecular machine that couples chromosomes to spindle microtubules--performs an essential, tightly regulated function, yet varies dramatically across eukaryotes. Microtubules are ...

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity

The Dudka Lab at Lehigh University studies how rapid evolution of chromosome segregation machinery impacts health, fertility, and disease.

Embryos must adapt to decreasing cell size. Although chromosome segregation. dynamics in C. elegans remain largely invariant, spindle length scales with cell. size and can be recapitulated by only var...

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

Police in Seattle are investigating a shooting at the Seattle Center that left multiple people injured.The Seattle Police Department said, “Police are investiga

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