Scientists identify the first non-coding gene that directly controls cell size, reshaping how biology explains growth and ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Recently, researchers have been working on using 3D embryo structures called “hematoids,” which are similar to embryos. These ...

One of the most exciting advances in cancer treatments in the past decade is the development of T cell immunotherapies, in which a patient's own immune system is trained to recognize and attack ...

There is a huge amount of DNA in most human cells, and that DNA has to be carefully compacted and organized so that it will ...

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) arises from defective blood stem cells that progressively lose their normal functions.

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

The egg-making process involved removing the nucleus from an existing human egg cell and swapping it out for a nucleus from a human skin cell. This first step, called somatic cell nuclear transfer, ...