Cell Science

What New Cell Biology Can AI Reveal Just by Looking at Images? A Lot!

Humans are good at looking at images and finding patterns or making comparisons. Look at a collection of dog photos, for example, and you can sort them by color, by ear size, by face shape, and so on. But could you compare them quantitatively? And perhaps ...

Cell Science April 20, 2022

Mapping the fly

Science owes much to the humble fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), which is more similar to a human than its appearance may suggest. Of the approximately 14,000 protein-coding genes in the fly genome, about three-quarters have a human counterpart. This ...

Cell Science April 7, 2022

Old mouse, new tech

Parabiosis, an experimental technique in which animals are surgically conjoined so their blood circulations intermix, was first attempted in the mid-19th century, and has since been performed in a wide range of species, including invertebrates. Though ...

Cell Science March 10, 2022

From parts list to blueprint: OpenCell lights the way

Scientists have made great strides in understanding the complexity of the cell in the nearly 360 years since English polymath Robert Hooke discovered this smallest unit of life. The anatomy of the cell and functions of its various internal structures, or ...

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