David A. Drew, PhD, of the Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit and Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in Cellular ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

Tumors develop when cells in the body grow uncontrollably. Finding a tumor on your dog can be very frightening, but they are ...

Karl Koehler builds inner ear and skin organoids from human stem cells to model their development in health and disease.

The doses – low and high – were calculated and scaled from what an average human is expected to consume daily. They fed the ...

We fact-check various aspects of two of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting transgender people.

On the first day of his administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to ...

identify a Parkinson’s disease–specific increase in transfer RNA (tRNA) fragments in human blood ... Cheng and colleagues perform single-cell and spatial transcriptomics on patient samples ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

By mapping the subcellular architecture and protein interactions within cells, researchers can better understand how mutations contribute to pediatric cancers and other conditions.