There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that it will stop funding all research that uses human fetal tissue, ending ...

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

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

Stem cells are widely believed to hold great promise in medical research because of their ability to transform into all sorts of other cell types, and scientists can grow it in living mice. Hosted by: ...

The Trump administration is ending the use of abortion-derived fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

Studies offer insights into the health risks and burdens faced by people who have had COVID infections. Meanwhile, the Trump ...

Maintaining cellular order is a major logistical challenge: Individual mammalian cells contain billions of protein molecules, ...

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...

Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...