A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...

Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such ...

Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could change the way scientists think about treatments for a variety of ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

A human female is born with all the egg cells she will ever have. The possibility for the development of new oocytes is zero. Given this constraint, it is crucial that these gametes remain healthy and ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...