Cell

About Cell

Cell publishes findings of unusual significance in any area of experimental biology, including but not limited to cell biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, cancer, human genetics, systems biology, signaling, and disease mechanisms and therapeutics. The basic criterion for considering papers is whether the results provide significant conceptual advances into, or raise provocative questions and hypotheses regarding, an interesting and important biological question. In addition to primary research articles in four formats, Cell features review and opinion articles on recent research advances and issues of interest to its broad readership in the leading edge section.

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09 Dec 2024
Duke-NUS Medical School
Duke-NUS researchers have discovered that foetuses can manage their own immune responses to combat diseases and infections like Zika
13 Sep 2024
The University of Osaka
Researchers from Osaka University found that T cells recognize neoself-antigens––abnormal, unfolded host proteins presented by major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II) lacking the invariant chain––as non-self antigens, leading to the development of autoimmunity. Reactivation of Epstein–Barr virus, a known risk factor for lupus onset and exacerbation, increases the presentation of neoself-antigens by MHC-II, which could help explain the link between viral infection and autoimmune disease.
11 May 2023
Duke-NUS Medical School
A protein that helps bats survive viral diseases might offer lessons for developing new anti-inflammatory treatments.
12 Jan 2021
Duke-NUS Medical School
Preventing Wnt from hitching a ride may offer new avenue for novel treatments for cancer and fibrosis.
17 Oct 2019
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Comprehensive genomic information of largely understudied Asian populations will expand understanding on the biology of diseases.
Professor Young Seok Ju
05 Jun 2019
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Some teenagers harbor catastrophic changes to their genomes that can lead to lung cancer later on in life, even if they never smoke
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05 Aug 2015
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Findings on cell differentiation controls can advance understanding of stem cells.
Figure 1. Arabidopsis thaliana. A small flowering plant also known as thale cress, commonly used in biological studies of plants.
24 Apr 2015
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University
Flowering plants naturally know when they need to spare or perish their cells. In a new study reported in Cell, scientists at WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University have examined the ovules of plant cells to reveal a novel cell-elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.
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13 Jun 2013
RIKEN
Unagi, the sea-going Japanese freshwater eel, harbors a fluorescent protein that could be the basis for a revolutionary new clinical test for bilirubin, a critical indicator of human liver function, hemolysis, and jaundice, according the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. The discovery could also contribute to the conservation of the endangered Unagi