This system was introduced in the 17 th century by René Descartes. While it helps find your place on a map, it also captures the journey of cells during embryonic development, particularly in the ...

A collaborative effort by experts from, Genentech, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative aims to leverage artificial ...

The biological factory that produces reproductive cells has a robust quality control system to identify and eliminate eggs ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Centenarians don’t just live longer. They’re also healthier, even in extreme old age. A biobank of centenarian stem cells ...

ABOVE: Scientists are exploring the relationship between the expression of ancient viral DNA and neurodegenerative disease ...

A woman got routine bloodwork during her second pregnancy and was shocked when the test results came back: It suggested her ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes.

Specialized protein machines called SMC complexes (Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes) play a critical role in these ...

Scientists have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six years ago they found that these so-called SMC motor proteins make long loops in our DNA, they ...

Kanazawa University, have discovered how a protein called lamin A helps repair the protective barrier around a cell's DNA.