An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we ...

Mice injected with a microRNA molecule lived longer and had fewer markers of ageing, but it’s not yet known if the treatment ...

Understanding bacterial growth mechanisms can potentially help uncover novel drug targets that are crucial for maintaining cellular viability, particularly for bacterial pathogens. In this important ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Like many cancer patients, Michael Wolff wanted answers. But, like many cancer patients in 2015, he wasn't getting them.

division researchers have developed groundbreaking immunotherapy treatments as well as improved transplantation. Over the years, our pioneering achievements in cancer treatment have saved millions of ...

In a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Fred Hutch Cancer Center cancer chemical biologist ...

A new study highlighting the importance of a large protein complex called the exocyst in cell growth, division and communication reveals new functions and mechanisms that are essential to how ...

Kuros Biosciences USA's strategic, exclusive sales agency agreement with Medtronic could boost adoption of its MagnetOs bone graft tech.

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent and was ...

This developmental plasticity requires a strict temporal and spatial control of the cell ... division'. Proliferative cell divisions are primarily responsible for growth maintenance of the plant ...