Francis Crick Institute scientists developed a rudimentary human spine via stem cells in a laboratory. They have created a ...

Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells ...

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting information, ...

New research shows that not all brain cells age equally, with certain cells, such as those in the hypothalamus, experiencing ...

Kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells, one new study has found. Another recent study says ...

Since its discovery in the 1990s, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) has been regarded as a leading target in cancer ...

Largest brain aging study points to possible connections between diet, inflammation, and brain health. Scientists at the ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in a specific ‘hot spot’ – are more sensitive to the aging process. It opens ...

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

Based on new brain mapping research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have discovered that not all cell types in the brain age in the same way.

which function as “blank slate” cells that scientists and doctors can grow into nearly any human body cell. Banerjee and Kumta have developed a new method that allows them to grow multiple stem cells ...

A new fertility technology developed by Gameto, using stem cells to help embryos mature outside the body, has led to the world’s first live human birth. This new technique, called Fertilo ...