SCITUBE SPECIAL EDITION · 2026

How Life Works: Cells, Genes & Metabolism

Exploring the biological processes that make life possible.

From the instructions encoded in our genes to the ways cells develop, communicate and produce energy, biology is shaped by intricate processes that we are still working to understand.

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CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Discovering life's hidden mechanisms.

Cell biology · Genetics · Metabolism

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