Some genetic mutations that are expected to completely stop a gene from working surprisingly cause only mild or even no ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

A new study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, is leading to a new understanding of how immune cells ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

When nutrients run low, hair follicle stem cells can stop making hair and help repair the skin instead. A drop in the amino ...

One of the most enduring goals in regenerative medicine is deceptively simple: replace a person's damaged or dying cells with ...

Shutting down the enzyme PTP1B helps brain immune cells clear plaques again, pointing to a potential new Alzheimer’s ...

Breakthrough research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is revealing how immune cells in the adult brain can regulate the generation of new neurons. The study, recently published ...

In a significant breakthrough for cancer immunotherapy, collaborative studies published simultaneously in Immunity & ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have developed a simpler and more efficient method to recover ...

Ovarian cancer spreads fast by recruiting the body’s own protective cells to clear the way—and that secret alliance may finally be its undoing.

Brain cells that promote tumor expansion for aggressive cancers such as glioblastoma can be “flipped” to instead inhibit that ...