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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...