The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition ...

The lab has developed ultra-small DNA nanodevices that can function inside living cells, illuminating biological processes.

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

Scientists denounced the move, arguing that fetal tissue is crucial for understanding human development and diseases.

Researchers at Colorado State University have determined how to use artificial intelligence to modify antibodies so they act ...

At a Food and Drug Administration cell and gene therapy (CGT) roundtable last June, most speakers pushed for the agency to ...

A new imaging study challenges long-standing ideas about how hair grows and could lead to new treatments for hair loss. Scientists have discovered that human hair does not emerge because it is pushed ...

A team of researchers has conducted the largest and most comprehensive genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date of ...

Vitamin B12 is long understood as a vital nutrient required for red blood cell formation and nerve function, but a new ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...