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Featured Articles
A Tragedy in Three Acts: The FY2026 Science Budget
Approval of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) budgets for Fiscal Year 2026 could easily be described as a three-act play. Among the central characters are the scientists and research advocates who flooded congressional offices with calls and letters, urging lawmakers to properly fund American science. Without these central characters,…
Call for Senior Editor, Special Issues – CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE)
CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), the education journal of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), is seeking applications for a volunteer Senior Editor for Special Issues. This leadership role offers an opportunity to help shape the direction of life sciences education research by guiding the development of LSE’s annual special issues and mentoring guest editors….
Exploring the Forces That Shape Cells
Cells are constantly pushing, pulling, and responding to the physical forces around them—and those forces play a critical role in shaping cell behavior, organization, and function. Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), ASCB’s flagship journal, brings these dynamics into focus through its Forces on and within Cells collection. Spanning molecular mechanics, cytoskeletal dynamics, and force-driven…
White House Halts Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Human Fetal Tissue
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on January 23, 2026, that it would pause new submissions to the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry, effectively ending the registry that has been in place for 17 years. The registry was created pursuant to President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13505, Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research…
Advocacy at Work: Preserving Multi-Year NIH Grants
As Congress raced to complete the long-overdue FY2026 federal budget, a little-known funding provision emerged as a critical safeguard for future NIH-supported research. Quiet, targeted advocacy helped ensure the provision remained in the final bill, protecting the stability of multi-year grants and the research they support. Funding for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health…
MBoC Achieves Record Visibility in 2025: Over 3.49 Million Full-Text Views
Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), ASCB’s flagship journal, reached a new milestone in 2025—surpassing 3.49 million full-text article views, the highest level of readership in the journal’s history. This record visibility reflects MBoC’s growing influence across the global cell biology community and highlights the continued demand for rigorous, accessible, peer-reviewed research spanning emerging methods,…
Journals
Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)
Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is a premier journal for research in all areas of cell biology, from biophysics to genetics to neuroscience. Its 14 online issues per year include Special Issues in the important areas of Quantitative Cell Biology, and Forces on and within Cells. Readers and authors alike benefit from the journal’s review process, which offers authors constructive feedback by working scientists.
CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE)
CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE) is a peer-reviewed journal of life science education research and evidence-based practice published by the ASCB in editorial partnership with the Genetics Society of America and partially funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Online and completely free, LSE emphasizes teaching innovations and evidence of their effectiveness and is designed for educators at all levels and across all life science disciplines.
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