A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Canadian researchers show that stress modifies the morphology of brain cells in mice, directly influencing the rodents' level ...

Seaweed growing along the world's coastlines could help to inspire new materials. Millions of years of evolution have shaped ...

The molecule Wnt, which plays a role in cell communication during human development, evolved from a superfamily with a shared lipid-modifying mechanism originally involved in bacterial defence and ...

The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

The beta cells of the pancreas are responsible for releasing the hormone insulin, which is vital for the absorption of glucose from the bloodstream. Various factors can impair the ability of these ...

A ‘noisy’ chromatin structure allows cells to take on different identities, helping the immune system but possibly leading to ...

The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.