Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Every person who has ever been pregnant leaves a biological trace that is far more intimate than a family photo album. During ...

Share on Pinterest Do all our cells have a type of memory, and if so, how might this influence health? We investigate. Design by MNT; Photography by Grant Faint/Getty Images & Ed Reschke/Getty Images.

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

"NEW YEAR, new me" is a phrase many people use as the new year begins, when they often make resolutions to improve themselves ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

In the battle against type 1 diabetes (T1D), one researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is leading a ...