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cell biology

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noun

  1. the branch of biology dealing with the study of cells, especially their formation, structure, components, and function.


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"Objectively, ambiguity in the genetic code should be deleterious; you end up generating a random pool of proteins," said Dipti Nayak, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of molecular and cell biology and senior author of a paper describing the findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily

In a companion study published in Nature Cell Biology led by Professor Ulrike Kutay and collaborators at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, researchers applied the same high resolution mapping strategy to human cells.

From Science Daily

To uncover the molecular details behind this shift, Jain's group partnered with Angelo D'Alessandro, PhD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Allan Doctor, MD, from University of Maryland, who has long studied red blood cell biology.

From Science Daily

“So the kind of behavior and cell biology that’s required to integrate the beetle into the nest is the very thing that stops it ever leaving the colony,” Parker said, describing it as a “Catch-22.”

From Los Angeles Times

Noah Whiteman, a professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, hailed the paper for demystifying a symbiotic relationship that has captivated scientists.

From Los Angeles Times