Zebrafish have the remarkable and rare ability to regrow and repair their hearts after damage. New research from Caltech and ...

On June 23rd a Chinese team presented the most complete attempt yet. In a paper published in PNAS, a journal, they report ...

A study by WEHI scientists has shed new light on one of the most fundamental mysteries of biology: how cells divide and grow ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

Researchers at Israel's prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science have been scrambling to save their experiments after an ...

While stem cell therapy has traditionally centered on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), MUSE cells are quickly gaining traction ...

The role of Fibroblast Growth Factor 8 (FGF8) in embryonic development and organ formation is gaining increased recognition ...

The research team grew “human organoids” (mini-organs of the gut, liver, and brain) from reprogrammed stem cells in a lab dish. They then injected these organoids directly into the amniotic fluid of ...

From hand-sized lantern sharks that glow in the deep sea to bus-sized whale sharks gliding through tropical waters, sharks ...

Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at School ...

Anthony Bianco, from London, was 21 when he was diagnosed with primary mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumour (PMNSGCT) - a rare type of cancer that develops from germ cells ...

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a ...