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Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be tracked and analysed, using … More...
How do immune cells strike a balance, unleashing rapid attacks against pathogens or cancer, while avoiding damage to healthy cells? More...
Lung-on-chip device exposes earliest stages of tuberculosis infection, and opens doors to investigate diversity in disease progression and personalise… More...
Dying tumour cells alert the immune system to fight cancer. More...
New stem cell-based embryo model reveals previously unknown communication between early tissues that become the spine and muscles in the central part … More...
In a new five-year project supported by the European Research Council, researchers are working to understand the brain’s built-in capacity to perceive… More...
Researchers have revealed how a genetic circuit may have helped the evolution of insect wings. More...
Mice lacking a gene responsible for cell structure lose intestinal balance and experience systemic inflammation, mirroring a lethal condition seen in … More...
Researchers find that virgin female mice can become aggressive towards pups when hungry, but only in certain hormonal states. More...
By blocking interactions with a critical growth pathway, new drugs now entering clinical trials may finally disarm one of cancer’s major drivers. More...
A team of scientists have, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease. More...
An international group of researchers have redrawn the idea of chromosome shape, finding that they’re not always stable X-shaped structures but are co… More...
By revealing the molecular mechanisms behind the peacekeeping abilities of specialised immune cells, scientists are uncovering new pathways for treati… More...
New research in zebrafish shows how embryos build a functional heart that keeps beating for life. More...
Researchers at the Crick have mapped the human metabolic pathways that Cryptosporidium, an intestinal parasite, requires to survive. More...
Caetano Reis e Sousa's Crick Crash Course on immunology is now available to the public on YouTube. Please do share it if you have friends or family wh… More...
Researchers from the Crick and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual… More...
Emma Wall, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Crick, explains the science of long COVID as part of the Crick Crash Course series. Sign-up to the y… More...
Researchers in the Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory have identified the transcription factors that wake up neural stem cells in the mouse hippocamp… More...
