For the roughly 1.6 million Americans living with type 1 diabetes, daily life revolves around a relentless calculation: check ...

For the first time, researchers have used cells from one species to restore the sense of smell in another. In an article published April 25 in Cell, researchers from Columbia University described how ...

Scientists succeed in reversing liver damage by removing key aged cells, p21-TREM2, that cause inflammation and fat ...

New research from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describes a process for converting skin cells directly into neurons that bypasses the induced pluripotent stem cell ...

Messenger RNA can travel between different types of stem cells through tunnel-like structures, as revealed by a new study. By studying interactions between mouse and human stem cells, they discovered ...

To create mouse-rat "chimeras," researchers injected rat stem cells into mouse embryos that lacked some genes for brain development. Creative Touch Imaging Ltd. / NurPhoto via Getty Images Scientists ...

The mouse on the left is a chimeric with dark eyes and patches of black fur, a result of stem cells derived from a choanoflagellate Sox gene. The wildtype mouse on the right has red eyes and all white ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...