Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function ...

Preventing metastasis – the development of cancer cells beyond their original location – remains one of the major goals of current cancer research. Most malignant tumor cells metastasize by exploiting ...

Erasable electric fields written by laser light onto crystal surfaces can trap, align, and release living cells without ...

The heart (cyan) forms from two distant regions of the embryo (far left). These regions migrate to the embryo midline, where they fuse into a tube to make the first heart structure (far right).

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle ...

In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing ...