Westlake University in China and the California Institute of Technology have designed a protein-based system inside living ...

Researchers have developed a new technology that improves the precision and integration density of synthetic genetic circuits.

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified a new way to deliver ...

According to scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, sea anemones can restore their shape following a ...

Researchers are redefining the criteria that determine whether a cell is considered alive or dead. Cellular death is a ...

Some animals have a unique ability to regenerate body parts. This skill fascinates scientists and nature ... This is due to their abundance of stem cells. Found in freshwater, these worms are often ...

Animals feature what is known as pluripotency; an ability for embryonic stem cells to differentiate and develop into the variety of tissues that make up a fully developed organism. In spite of not ...

By tightly packing some sections of DNA and covering other parts of the molecule with chemical tags, these modifications change how a cell uses the DNA and, consequently, how the cell functions.

The recipe for stem cells in animals The difference between animals ... and then you build something new from mostly recycled parts.” ...

While the cells have similar parts, the researchers weren’t sure if the parts worked the same way. In neurons, when a chemical signal passes through, the cell starts producing CREB. The protein ...

But the human body does not take kindly to foreign parts ... cell reprogramming to the transplantation—took 20 days. The next step is to see whether the technique will work in larger animals ...

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a study shows. Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in ...