Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that human cells initiate self-destruction processes when viruses disrupt RNA production, ...

30) in the journal Nature Communications. The egg-making process involved removing the nucleus from an existing human egg cell and swapping it out for a nucleus from a human skin cell. This first step ...

The interior of a cell is packed with proteins and nucleic acids, such as RNA, all of which need to perform specific ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

A human female is born with all the egg cells she will ever have. The possibility for the development of new oocytes is zero. Given this constraint, it is crucial that these gametes remain healthy and ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...