Building bundles by the numbers

Study challenges five-decade paradigm of strict division of labor in animal cell division

Microtubules get help from actin filaments during mitosis

Study challenges five-decade paradigm of strict division of labor in animal cell division

Microtubules get help from actin filaments during mitosis

The rhythm that guides cell division

Yale scientists have found that cells compute their size using membrane signaling waves, revealing a new insight into biological information

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

Traveling protein waves reveal how dividing cells set chromosome-splitting spindle size

When a human cell prepares to split into two daughter cells, it must first construct a tiny internal machine called the mitotic spindle—a st

Why Cells Are Small: The Physical Constraints of Surface Area and Diffusion

Two physical constraints — surface area and diffusion — explain why cells are (usually) tiny.

Carnegie Mellon Study Identifies RNA Mechanism That Organizes Cellular Protein Condensates

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University identifies a mechanism that controls how cell condensate patterns form and how they play a key r