Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the body. It has long been known that when red blood cells break down or anemia occurs due to bleeding, the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) increases, ...

It is crucial for organisms to be able to control which genes are expressed in which cells and when. Naturally occurring chemical modifications of DNA-binding histone proteins are believed to play an ...

The research published in Nature Communications on Sept. 6th is the first step in possibly finding an unlimited source of ...

In the meantime current gene therapies remain expensive and challenging to scale up because each patient’s batch of cells has ...

Huanzhong Wang, professor of plant molecular biology in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), ...

Culturing pluripotent stem cells to replicate different stages of embryonic development allows researchers to more easily ...

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

Can we meet the global demand for meat? Food scientists at UC Davis are studying how to make beef using cow stem cells.

Scientists from Sun Yat-sen University's School of Biomedical Engineering have developed tubular scaffolds made from ...

Artificial intelligence and organoid advances hold new promise for reducing the number of laboratory animals used in studies.

Harvard stem cell biologists have pioneered a groundbreaking 3D organoid culture method for generating large numbers of adult skeletal muscle satellite cells, also known as muscle stem cells, in vitro ...

Implanting a pouch of stem-cell-derived pancreas cells under the skin of type 1 diabetics has enabled them to live without ...