Cancer is fundamentally a disease of stem cells; we argue that the epigenome is a logical target for early events in carcinogenesis, given that stem cells are defined epigenetically and that ...

Researchers used miniature human brains grown in the lab to uncover why certain genetic mutations lead to abnormally small ...

A newly discovered cell that matures into two specialist cell types – an immune cell responsible for tissue repair and a cell that forms blood vessels – significantly boosts wound healing, according ...

The promise of cell therapy for regenerative medicine is often viewed as being synonymous with stem cell therapy, but some companies are instead successfully bringing progenitor cell-based cell ...

In the field of molecular epidemiology, the worldwide scientific community has been steadily sleuthing to solve the riddle of the early history of SARS-CoV-2. Despite recent efforts by the World ...

Mechano-Growth Factor (MGF), often referred to as the IGF-1 Ec isoform (or IGF-1 Eb), is a splice variant of the insulin-like ...

Wolf-Rayet stars are very large and very hot. Astronomers have long wondered whether they are the progenitors of certain types of supernovae. New work from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) team, ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Fibrosis, resulting from excess extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition, is a feature of adipose tissue (AT) dysfunction and obesity-related insulin resistance.