While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell’s nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

From spaghetti to sausagesOur DNA is constantly being packed and unpacked. And there is a good reason for this: depending on ...

Adding bile acids as farnesoid X receptor agonists to the culture medium supported the growth and development of unique stem ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

T-bet is a transcription factor, one of the control proteins in the cell nucleus that can turn specific groups of genes on ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Not only do neural progenitors persist in the adult brain, but many of these cells are in active stages of division.

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...