Beginning with the invention of the first microscope in the late 1500s, scientists have been trying to peer into preserved ...

Stem cells derived from human amnion have for some time been considered promising for cell therapies because of their ease ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect 1 to 2 percent of children in the United States. Hundreds of genetic and environmental ...

A see-through zebrafish and enhanced imaging provide the first direct glimpse of how blood stem cells take root in the ...

When plants come under attack internal alarm bells ring and their defence mechanisms swing into action – and it happens ...

We have approximately 100 billion nerve cells in our brains, all of which communicate with one another. Why do they ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in amplifying genes altered by activities such as smoking – with changes that ...

A stem cell capable of regenerating both bone and cartilage has been identified in bone marrow of mice. The discovery ...

Improving gene-sequencing technologies have focused immunologists’ attention on the role of genes in diseases. But it appears the environment is ...

A regime of anti-HIV drugs — components of regimens to treat established HIV infection — has the potential to protect ...

During embryonal development of vertebrates, signaling molecules inform each cell at which position it is located. In this way, the ...

A simple method to sense DNA, as well as potential biomarker proteins of cancer or other diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ...

Bacteria are as individual as people, according to new research by Professor Peter Young and his team in the Department ...

In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to ...