New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like ...

Susanne Rafelski and her colleagues had a deceptively simple goal. “We wanted to be able to label many different structures in the cell, but do live imaging,” says the quantitative cell biologist and ...

Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called 'segmentation' and it enables a range of applications, ...