EPFL scientists have shown that a gene linked to a rare childhood disease is essential for regenerating intestinal stem cells ...

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

In a move that could reshape drug discovery, researchers at Harvard Medical School have designed an artificial intelligence ...

Scientists have uncovered how stem cells in the olfactory system continually regenerate neurons responsible for our sense of smell.

Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and ...

In the lab, it's easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the ...

Microscopes have long served as windows into the hidden world of cells, revealing their shape, activity, and chemistry. Yet ...

Many people are familiar with lactate primarily from sports, where it is produced in muscle cells during physical exertion.

Autophagy is essentially the 'rubbish collection' of our cells. If there are problems in this process, which is so important for our health, diseases such as Parkinson's can result. In their latest ...