Building a reference manual for how cells connect with each other

Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants, and whales, needs a way for their cells to connect with each other to form tissues, organs, and organize their overall body plan.
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MIT invents human brain model with six major cell types to enable personalized disease research, drug discovery

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

Study maps complex interplay between cells, metabolism, and immunity in breast cancer lymph node metastasis

A recent integrative analysis of single-cell sequencing and single-cell spatial mapping of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer reveals novel mechanisms of the metabolic-immune interaction that ...
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Contractile peri-nuclear actomyosin network repositions peripheral and polar chromosomes to promote early kinetochore–microtubule interactions

This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...
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Groundbreaking study maps complex interplay between cells, metabolism, and immunity in breast cancer lymph node metastasis

A recent integrative analysis of single-cell sequencing and single-cell spatial mapping of lymph node metastasis in breast ...