The studies are among a handful of pioneering trials using stem cells to treat diabetes, which affects close to half a ...

Solar is becoming a major player in electricity generation and scientists are trying to boost its efficiency still further.

“A cell type is a group of cells that are similar to each other and distinct from other groups of cells,” offers ...

Cell Impact continues to enhance its capacity and capability. Today, the company signed a collaboration agreement with ...

A study led by UCLA Health has begun to unravel one of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience—how the human brain encodes ...

It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.

Renowned Harvard geneticist and serial entrepreneur George Church is at it again, with a venture that has raised $75 million ...

For over a century, scientists have hypothesized that a cell like this existed – and now, an adult version has been found at last, hiding in the aorta of grown mice. The discovery was nine years in ...

In the embryonic development of vertebrates, 5-formylcytosine activates genes. Professor Christof Niehrs and his team at the ...

“The clones were very beautiful. We were so excited,” Liu told The Scientist. The engineered panda stem cells were close to those normally ... and runs the award-winning blog NeuroFantastic.com. Her ...

A new University of Cambridge study aims to pinpoint for the first time the very moment the immune system recognises a tumour ...