Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

In addition, germ cells require a specialized environment, or niche, provided by the supporting somatic cells in which to differentiate.

Germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy are two quite different proposals, and the legitimate concerns and risks of the former should not be used to stall progress on the latter.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

A complex regulatory network is known to promote functional exhaustion of CD8 + T-cells, but less is known about those factors that protect CD8 + T-cells from exhaustion. This study identifies the ...

Differentiation of the cells was assayed by expression of 24 cell-specific molecular markers that cover all embryonic germ layers and 11 different tissues.