How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

The 2025 class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholars included 30 early-career scientists, one of ...

The Division of Neuropathology is a cornerstone of the Department of Pathology, with its historical championing of human ...

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be ...

The Bombay High Court granted him bail in November 2022, finding insufficient evidence of Teltumbde's involvement; the ...

Shades State Park in Waveland, Indiana is that blissful escape from the digital hamster wheel we’re all running on. Just a scenic hour’s drive west of Indianapolis lies this 3,000-acre slice of ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Summary: Scientists have built one of the most comprehensive single-cell maps of the developing human brain. The new BrainSTEM framework analyzed nearly 680,000 fetal brain cells to chart their growth ...

Temperature is a key physiological factor that determines the speed of immune reactions. While this may seem obvious, it has ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...