VIB researchers have developed a new human stem-cell-based model that recreates an early stage of immune-cell development and ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

Growing older is inevitable, but what happens inside our cells as we age may be more complicated than scientists once believed. New research reveals a striking difference between men and women: a ...

The human body is an extraordinary feat of biological engineering. Every heartbeat, every breath, every thought, and every movement depends on an immense network of microscopic cells working together ...

A protective coating prolonged the survival and function of transplanted islet cells in diabetic mice, offering a novel cell ...

Cell-based models of the human cortex transplanted into mice produce neurons that are inaccessible in vitro, and could enable scientists to link brain injury to behaviour.

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A McGill University review finds that the ethics of pediatric first-in-human cell and gene therapy trials rests on two ...

For decades, technical limitations and entrenched expectations shaped chromosome counts, illustrating how accepted scientific ideas can persist despite conflicting evidence.

Lab-grown organoids wire into mice missing a key part of their brain, offering a new way to test drugs for developmental conditions. Human brain tissue transplanted into mice that lack a key part of ...

Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.