UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

An automated cell culture system reduces hands-on time and improves seeding consistency in 96-well microplates. The research ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

3D cell cultures are no longer a futuristic idea. They’re already reshaping how we study diseases like cancer, offering more realistic models of how cells behave in the body. But despite their ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...