A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

People with shorter protective caps at the end of their chromosomes (called telomeres) may be more likely to develop ...

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting white cells. This vital function is often disrupted in ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have developed a computer model to help scientists identify tumor-fighting immune cells in ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the ...

A research group led by Wei Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created mice born from two male parents and capable of ...

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

In "remarkable" work, a patch of engineered heart muscle cells was used to strengthen a patient's heart before transplant.

STEM Potential supports you through years 10 and 12 with insightful lectures, subject-specific workshops and a non-residential summer school. STEM Potential is a multi-year programme of activities and ...

Germline development is the development of the cell lineage that gives rise to the reproductive cells, called gametes, of sexually reproducing organisms. Primordial germ cells, the founder cells ...