One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

This important study provides a detailed analysis of the transcriptional landscape of the mouse hippocampus in the context of various physiological states. The main conclusions have solid support: ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Stem cell therapy is an emerging treatment for type 2 diabetes. Although it’s not yet FDA-approved in the United States, it is a rapidly expanding and promising field of research. Stem cells are ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Share on Pinterest Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own ...