Scientists have developed a powerful new technique that allows them to observe how individual cells manufacture proteins ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 stem cells in the earliest days of development. The ability of these embryonic ...

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ability to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells. By calming this cellular ...

The first participant has been treated in a landmark clinical trial of cellular reprogramming, which aims to rejuvenate ...

Shinya Yamanaka didn’t want to get ahead of himself the first time he looked at induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) through a microscope. “Don’t be excited,” he told his colleague Kazutoshi ...

Embryonic development is one of the most dynamic biological processes in nature. Cells and tissues organize and reorganize ...

Persistent viral infections pose a unique challenge to the immune system. Prolonged antigen exposure drives T cells into a state of exhaustion — a ...

Neural stem cells (NSCs) sit at the heart of brain development, lifelong neurogenesis, and the brain’s capacity to respond to injury and disease. Their fate ...

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) occurs when abnormal B cells accumulate in the bone marrow and blood. This crowds out healthy blood cells and weakens the body’s ability to fight infections.