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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize...

Capitalizing on a new insight into HIV's strategy for evading antibodies—proteins produced by the immune system to identify and wipe...

Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research...

A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body....

Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at...

The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in...

People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid can take a...

When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a...

Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different...

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new...

The creation of genetically modified and entirely synthetic organisms continues to generate excitement as well as worry. Scientists have genetically...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a...

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated...

How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they...

Cancer uses a little-understood element of cell signaling to hijack the communication process and spread, according to Rice University researchers....

The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s or Parkinson’s are caused by defect and aggregated proteins accumulating in brain nerve cells that...

Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased,...