Individuals with sickle cell disease—a chronic illness where misshapen, sticky blood cells clump together, reducing oxygen ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

They showed that symbioses with bacteria have ... Microbial Cell Factories May Help Get to the Root of Understudied Plant Molecules Jan. 16, 2025 — A new tool could make it easier to study ...

Pluripotent stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into the three primary germ cell layers of the early embryo and therefore into all cells of the ...

Cell growth usually refers to cell proliferation, the increase in cell numbers that occurs through repeated cell division. Cell growth can also refer to the enlargement of cell volume, which can ...

The medical name for her little-known illness is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a neurological condition that causes muscles to spasm. As we sit down to talk, Celine says it went undiagnosed for years.

This is an important study providing compelling evidence that the Mediator kinase module mediates an elevated inflammatory response, manifested by heightened cytokine levels, associated with Downs ...