Organisms start from one cell, which divides, again and again, building 3D tissues into a body. Epithelial cells form linings, like the skin and outer layers of organs, and lay the foundation for ...

On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Neurons have complex dendritic trees, receiving numerous inputs at various distances from the cell body. Yet the rules of molecular signal propagation from dendrites to nuclei are unknown. DARPP-32 is ...

The shapes of eukaryotic cells and, ultimately, the organisms that they form are defined by cycles of mechanosensing, mechanotransduction and mechanoresponse. Recent studies have shed light into the ...

Fractals make pretty posters, but they also describe stunning 3D molecular shapes. A fractal describes a geometric shape that has the same patterns at many different size scales, like a branching bit ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.