All living things polarize, so examining the elements of how this occurs is to study the basic necessities of life. Lombardo’s lab focuses on studying human cell polarity and was recently awarded a ...

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

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications titled, “The reference genome of the human diploid cell line RPE-1,” researchers from University of Rome La Sapienza have produced the first reference ...

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 ...