When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Using mice with stroke-induced brain damage, the researchers found that injections of human stem cells could successfully ...

Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

A research team led by Professor Simona Giunta at the University of Rome La Sapienza has produced the first reference-quality ...

Scientists at Duke University made a groundbreaking discovery. They found pancreatic alpha cells can produce GLP-1. GLP-1 is similar to Ozempic. This hormone regulates blood sugar. It may offer a ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something ...