Growing older is inevitable, but what happens inside our cells as we age may be more complicated than scientists once believed. New research reveals a striking difference between men and women: a ...

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized ...

Nanoparticles could enable gene therapies for cancer and genetic disease that don't use modified viruses, which may cause new forms of cancer or dangerous immune system reactions in some patients.

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

New model enables researchers to explore how Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome affects three layers of cells in blood ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...