Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

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It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Stem cells age faster and become functionally exhausted in low Earth orbit, making crewed long-duration space travel even more challenging. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Cells At Work! starts streaming on June 13, only on Netflix! The smallest protagonist in film history: a human cell! There are a staggering 37 trillion cells in the human body. Red blood cells that ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...