Daphne Mashile-Nkosi spearheads a vital campaign to raise awareness about the critical shortage of stem cell and blood donations in South Africa, supported by key healthcare organisations.

For decades, the dream of slowing aging has hovered at the edge of science fiction, more marketing slogan than medical ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...

Cell death triggered by GPX4 loss was slowed in cell cultures and in mouse model using compounds that specifically inhibit ferroptosis.

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ...

Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a ...

Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells that no longer divide and protect against tumor development. Yet two decades have gone ...

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life – driven by a ring of ...