The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

The cost of bringing a new drug to the market has recently been estimated by Forbes Magazine at $5 billion. This figure derives in large part from high attrition rates in the drug development pipeline ...

Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy - collectively known as metabolism - is essential in biology. However, analyzing the vast amounts of data on cellular processes to ...

Amina Ann Qutub is a biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at San Antonio (TX, USA) who studies the design of human cells and develops computational models to predict how single cells form ...