A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

Retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) can differentiate into all major retinal cell types during development, but they permanently lose this capacity as one grows older, leaving the adult retina with no ...

Cerebral palsy is a condition usually caused by brain damage before or during birth, resulting in impaired posture and movement. A Japanese research team has demonstrated in rat experiments that stem ...

Researchers have found hundreds of metabolic enzymes attached to human DNA inside the cell nucleus. Different tissues and cancers show unique patterns of these enzymes, forming a “nuclear metabolic ...

Proof-of-concept trial in a single patient shows that cells can survive transplantation without immunosuppression ...

Iron is essential to biological function, and iron-based nanomaterials may become valuable tools in the long-term effort to ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center hematologists took center stage at the 2026 Tandem Meetings, a multidisciplinary meeting of experts in the field of blood stem cell transplantation, held in Salt Lake City ...

A breakthrough AI system is revolutionizing cancer immunotherapy by enabling scientists to design protein-based keys that train a patient s immune cells to attack cancer with extreme precision. This ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell, from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division, scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the ...