Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

AI could "give the scientific community a way to address the most difficult and urgent questions in human health," argues ...

Seattle’s Allen Institute will play a key role in a groundbreaking space mission this weekend. The Allen Institute for Cell Science is providing stem cells that will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a proof of concept for now. Reading time 3 minutes A team of scientists has ...

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Tufts University have engineered tiny living constructs from frog embryo cells that spontaneously develop functional nervous systems, a ...

With standard PCR systems, users are required to set a predefined quantity of cycles according to assay and sample-specific factors. Single-cell sequencing tests demand knowledge of the number of ...

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and the molecular events within them are dynamic, and developmental processes, ...

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In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...