Researchers just discovered super stem cells capable of resetting themselves back to a stronger, younger version.

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Every cell in our body has a sex. But most research so far has focused on our gonads—ovaries or testes—and not on the early ...

Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

Apr. 25, 2025 — Chimpanzee naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can now be grown in cellular cultures, reveals a recent study. They successfully created chimpanzee early embryo models ...

A new study in Cell reveals that lamina-associated domains (LADs) in early mouse embryos are shaped by dynamic epigenetic ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

This valuable study provides insights into a key question in comparative neuroanatomy and development. The authors provide evidence of the role for a particular micro-RNA in regulating the development ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.