The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that ...

The animal world is an arena where creatures are endowed with incredible mysteries, where some animals live perfectly well ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

Oil-in-water droplets respond to chemical cues by forming arm-like extensions that resemble filopodia, which are used by ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

Scientists and regulators have long acknowledged the weaknesses in traditional methods used to identify drugs that may harm ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.