Female mammals are born with all the egg cells they will ever have in their ovaries. Some of these cells therefore live for a long time – and must remain functional throughout this period. Experiments ...

Professor Rong LI (left) and Dr WANG Haiyang (right) together with their team from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the NUS Bia-Echo Asia Centre for ...

Scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for ...