Danforth Center scientists Tessa Burch-Smith and Kirk Czymmek, in collaboration with researchers at the CryoEM Facility at Stanford University, are embarking on a pioneering initiative to develop new ...

The retina is a thin layer of neural tissue at the back of the eye that detects light and converts it into signals, sent to the brain. During development, all the specialized neurons in the ...

Suspicious cells build up in mice that haven’t given birth, a new study finds. They could help explain a longstanding mystery ...

Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests ...

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

Researchers reveal that lack of sleep damages the myelin sheath in the brain and slows the rate of neural signal transmission, with consequences for memory and motor function.

Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the ...

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

Disease research has always been about understanding tiny pieces of life. Scientists study how cells behave when sickness ...

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 ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's lone-astronaut saga wants to be "Interstellar" meets "E.T.," but it's too long and too cutely formulaic. There are clichés that critics go back to, and when I ...