Left to right: Xi Chen, Jack Strominger and Konrad Krzewski Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a relatively small subset of lymphocytes (~15%). Nonetheless, they play a very important…
When animals meet, how do they distinguish friend from foe? Such determinations must be made quickly, since any delay could mean a missed opportunity, but also accurately, since…
Co-authors Andy McMahon, Toyo Tenzen and Benjamin Allen The Hedgehog signaling pathway has emerged as a key regulator of normal embryonic development and a major contributor to a…
Co-authors Tehyen Chu and Sam Kunes One of a cell’s fundamental tasks is to deliver its synthetic products to subcellular locations appropriate for their function. Nowhere is this…
Imagine a cocktail party, full of conversing people. As a group, these people love to talk, but for a good party their chatter should be neither too quiet…
Young sensory systems often utilize stimuli present in the environment during development to refine information processing. These processes work to optimize the system for the encoding of future…
First author of this paper, Antonia Holway One of the 10 biological commandments is "Thou shall keep thy genome stable!" One way that proliferating cells accomplish this is…
Left to right: Ray Erikson, Ming Lei and Xiaoqi Liu A new study from the Erikson lab by Xiaoqi Liu and Ming Lei (just appearing in Molecular and…
MicroRNAs are small RNAs that bind and repress target mRNAs. The first microRNA was discovered by Victor Ambros and colleagues in Harvard’s Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology,…
Authors Errett Hobbs (left) and Craig Ellermeier In this week’s Cell, Craig Ellermeier, Errett Hobbs, Eduardo Gonzalez and Rich Losick report the discovery of an unusually simple system…
