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 ...

The human brain is not a fast-healing organ. Normally it doesn’t need to be as adult brain cells are stable and last for a ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

A new study from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute now shows how human stem cell based therapy may help ...

Dispatch Bio, a biotech company engineering a universal treatment across solid tumors leveraging its first-in-class Flare ...

Panvel, Jan 12: With the Panvel Municipal Corporation general elections 2025–26 underway, the civic administration has ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell-known as helper T cells-from stem cells in a ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.