A new study published in Nature Communications shows that human glial progenitor cells are a promising and safe cell product ...

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Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that large pieces of DNA can transfer directly between human cells, and the DNA can persist and ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and is estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide. A potential new ...

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) has received a $1.8 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) to address a critical gap in Parkinson's research – the limited ...

Scientists have launched a human trial testing gene therapy that could make aging cells behave like younger ones.

Many promising therapies fail because preclinical models do not fully capture the complexity of the human heart. A new review ...